Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece The Genealogy of Morality (1887) sets out to explain where ideas of good and evil come from and why they have left human beings worse off. He traces their origins in what he calls the slave revolt in morality. David examines the ways Nietzsche’s story unsettles almost everything about modern social conventions and leaves us with the troubling question: what can possibly come next?

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Going deeper:

• John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are (2018)
• Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche (2018)
• Alex Ross, 'Nietzsche's Eternal Return,' The New Yorker (2019)
• (Audio): In Our Time, 'Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality (2017)

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