Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

The Genealogy of Guilt

12.22.2009 - By Oxford UniversityPlay

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Nietzsche's objective is not to challenge the Christian non-naturalistic account of guilt but to show that Christian representation of guilt is a product of the exploitation of human susceptibility to guilt as instrument of self-directed cruelty.

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