Nietzsche’s English Genealogy of Truthfulness

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103 (2): 341–63. 2021. doi:10.1515/agph-2018-0048

Based on various posthumous fragments, the article reconstructs Nietzsche’s little-known early genealogical account of how the value of truth and the cultivation of the virtue of truthfulness originated not from a pure love of truth, but from the practical necessity of social cooperation.

genealogy, genealogical method, 19th century, pragmatic genealogy, Nietzsche, continental philosophy

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