Download or read book On the Genealogy of Morals written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'On the Genealogy of Morals', Nietzsche exposes the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures.