Notes for a philosophy of morality: about certain keys of reading the genealogy of the moral of Friedrich Nietzsche

Abstract

The current article focuses on Friedrich Nietzsche's interpretation of "The Genealogy of the Morals", to develop this issue the author resorts to a key element in the reading. The philosopher fulfills his objective from a philological, psychological and physiologic perspective. From the explanation of the hypothesis to this text, it is apparent how the author develops his genealogical inquiry in each of the chapters in a way that the interpretive perspective is woven throughout the book. An insight into the manuscript as a whole is offered with rigor, order and clarity. The interpretation of the hypothesis is illustrated with notable care in each case, and at the same time, the reasoning of each philosopher. The peculiar philosophical perspective of the author is revealed at the end: the body is exposed as an area for interpretation, like an area in which concepts and human behavior are diagnosed, revealing itself as the force that enlightens life; a force that is the source of the modern philosopher.