La genealogía de la moral

Nietzsche carries out in The Genealogy of Morality an exercise in the application of his psychology of the "will to power". It is about deriving all spiritual notions from the body, understood as a set of drives reduced, ultimately, to the artistic will to power or force that life consists of. For Nietzsche, the spiritual concept of a bad conscience comes from the will that encounters an obstacle on its way outwards, towards depression; and the concept of sin manifests itself as a mere interpretation of a state of suffering that serves to provoke a convulsion in whoever is in that phase. His conclusion cannot be less equivocal: the physiological assumption of morality is the impoverishment of life. In this work the philosopher offers a precise and penetrating analysis of the moral facts, which he sends out of his field in order to reach their understanding.