Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's influential ideas about what it means to be moral. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality - A Polemic, which he ...

In the first essay of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals (OGM), he lays out his famous accusation: Christianity is the religion of the downtrodden, the bullied, the weak, the poor and the slave.

One way to think of On the Genealogy of Morals is as among the greatest horror novels ever written. Ostensibly a work of philosophical anthropology, its content is so speculative and shocking that it ...

Nietzsche points to hatred in the Christian breast, but doesn't appreciate that it is the byproduct of a victory over real violence The thinker that has done most to mount a defence of Christianity ...

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ...