The Genealogical Method and Its Radical Break On the Genealogy of Morals is Nietzsche’s most systematic examination of how moral concepts emerged through historical and psychological processes. Published in 1887, it consists of three essays that trace the origins of good and evil, guilt and bad conscience, and ascetic ideals. The work is revolutionary because it treats morality not as eternal truth discovered through reason or revealed by God but as human creation shaped by power struggles, psychological needs, and historical accidents. Morality has a history, and that history reveals that moral concepts we take as obvious and universal are...