XCII.

"He [Nietzsche] does not need a critical vantage point. The good and the evil distinction can be criticized from the good/bad distinction point of view, and the good — and vice-versa. You see what this is the essence of genealogical method. As Foucault will interpret it: "Give me a notion, tell me what is right. And what I do, I take the same conception back in history, and that will show what you think is right, just, or noble, has been at one point of time regarded as evil, what you should fight for. And tell me what you think is evil, and I'll go back in history and I will show you instances where what you think is evil was actually admired and was seen as ethical." This is the essence of the genealogical method. That you compare two ways how morality has been constructed, and you are criticizing one from the point of view of the other, without taking sides where do actually you stand, as such."

© Iván Szelényi
Yale Lectures on Foundations of Modern Social Thought
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