The chart you begin with is a pedigree chart, an ascendant chart. On it you start with yourself and work back in time, generation by generation, filling in your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on, as far back as you can. starts with you and shows the line of your direct ancestors . It is sometimes called a family tree, lineage, or ancestry chart. Think of the pedigree chart as a shorthand master outline of your bloodline. A quick glance at it alerts you to the blank spots in...
Further contrasts between Nietzsche's genealogical method and Ree's emerge from the methodological remarks in GM II, sections 12 and 13, surrounding the history of punishment. Nietzsche includes in the scope of his criticism here 'previous genealogists of morality' who 'discover some ''purpose'' or other in punishment, for example revenge or deterrence, then innocently place this purpose at the beginning as causa fiendi of punishment'.26 The genealogist who makes deterrence the cause of...
One can immediately see why Nietzsche says of Ree that 'in his hypothesizing we have the Darwinian beast politely joining hands with the most modern, unassuming moral milquetoast who ''no longer bites'' ' GM, Preface, 7 , and that he 'sees the altruistic manner of valuation as the moral manner of valuation in itself' GM, Preface, 4 . However, something else deserves comment. In Ree's title for chapter 1 the topic is the concepts good and evil bose . But throughout the chapter, and indeed right...