Abstract

In his On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), Nietzsche explores the following question: What techniques were used to turn a person with vital instincts into a person who can adapt to social life? According to Nietzsche, the invention of responsibility and punishment was decisive. In this way, the human being who “remembersµ, who makes promises, who commits himself to the future, was constructed: the uniform human being, equal among equals, conforming to the rule and therefore “predictableµ.