by Isabella Yang*
The academic landscape is decorated with various methods used to build conceptual understanding but genealogy stands out as an encyclopedic approach that transverses the past, present, and future. Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality and Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism provide two distinct genealogy accounts. Though both authors are united in pursuing a historical exposition of the present, their approaches diverge. Nietzsche segments morality into goodness and guilt and performs a genealogical assessment of each to refine his genealogy of morality. Weber inspects Protestantism and capitalism and induces a causal relationship to explain the correlation between the two. Though Nietzsche’s argumentation is more cogent and compelling, both accounts bestow depth and texture to the reader’s conception of the self and society. [Read more…] about On Genealogy: Excavating Nietzsche and Weber