Genealogy

Exasperation and defeat played big parts in my research journey in the Genealogy J-Term. Throughout my persistent irritation from not finding any new information, I constantly felt as if I were going to give up and almost had regret choosing this class. All of this frustration I possessed evaporated when I finally started interrogating my family members and confirming the few things I knew about my ancestry. After days of discovering pages of information and scavenging the internet for censuses…

also: “the belief that a society's political and social institutions are so bad that they should be destroyed”. This idea is one of the leading arguments as to why Nietzsche chose to physically write about books like “Beyond Good and Evil”, and “Genealogy of Morals”. Through some of these reading one may be able to evaluate some of the most intriguing ideas in society. There are terms such as “ressentiment” and this idea that there must be a “revaluation of morals”. One will be able to evaluate…

3.3.1 Hermeneutics of Suspicion: The Role of Genealogy in Historical Sense of Midnight’s Children: The historical sense in the novel invokes the idea of Foucault’s ‘genealogical’ history. Genealogy is the study of ‘family history’ which often possess the desire to historically ‘situate’ one's family in the larger historical picture. In the poststructuralist discourse of Foucault and other postmodern theorists, it has assumed a special significance owing to the fact that it eschews history of its…

In Essay I of Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, ‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad’, Nietzsche attempts to study the origin of contemporary morality by examining the conditions and circumstances by which the values of morals have emerged. This investigation of his, lead him to conclude that the morals that exist in us now, are not inherent in us, but were caused by a “slave revolt” in morality through the feeling of ressentiment. In this essay, I will be discussing what ressentiment is, why and…

In his essay “ Genealogy of Modern Racism” (2002), Cornel West argues that whites have been conditioned to treat blacks inferiorly in beauty, culture and intellectual abilities because of the structures of modern discourse. (P.90) Many writers have mentioned the differences between the blacks and whites but most of them against the idea of the blacks being equal to the whites in any form. Some of the writers are J. J. Winckelmann who portrayed ancient Greece as a world of beautiful bodies.…

In his essays Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality he discusses the shift in thinking in terms of “good and bad” to “good and evil.” Nietzsche goes on to discuss his idea of master-slave morality, which at its core is exactly what it appears to be. Initially, this formulation of morality…

different and unique stances. Nietzsche looks further back than the current mindset, where,“the criminal deserves to be punished because he could have acted otherwise”("Genealogy", P.40). According to Nietzsche,“Throughout most of human history, punishment has not been meted out because the miscreant was held responsible for his act”("Genealogy",…

The first chapter of the book ‘The Empire of Trauma’ by Fassin and Rechtoman, examines the origin or the genealogy of the concept of trauma. The authors wrote that the concept of trauma has a dual genealogy, one that is scientific and one that is moral. Both the scientific and moral genealogy are rooted in the nineteenth century Europe. Fassin and Rechtoman argue that the “reconfiguration of the relationship between trauma and victim, in which the victim gains legitimacy as trauma comes to…

Luke. Both are similar on a literary level which can be explained by the synoptic problem. The Gospel of Mark and the source “Q” were the basis of these two gospels. Matthew and Luke shared sources but, they had their individual sources too. The genealogy, the nativity, and the childhood of Jesus played significant roles within the respective gospels. All components helped both authors generate a unique message to their audience. Also, they provided an insight of the beginning of Jesus’s journey…

cause of worship, for God dwelled with us. At first glance it can be determined that the two gospels present Jesus childhood in different ways, in fact Saint Matthew does not present with details the childhood of Jesus. Saint Matthew presents a genealogy of all the descendants of Jesus. Matthew places fourteen generations from Abraham and David, another fourteen from Abraham and transmigration to Babylon, and fourteen from then to Christ. With this, Matthew, as a catechist well trained and…