# Chapter 9 explained — The Genealogy of Morals

> Chapter companion for The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche.

## What happens

A freethinker and democrat responds to Nietzsche's discourse, arguing that the triumph of slave morality through the Jews has been a historical success, and that the Church now serves as a crude obstacle to this progress rather than its poison. Nietzsche remains silent on the matter.

## Themes in this chapter

### Master Morality vs. Slave Morality

The freethinker acknowledges the triumph of slave morality through the Jews and the vulgarization of humanity.

### Ressentiment and the Revaluation of Values

The Jewish slave revolt in morality is presented as the successful revaluation that overthrew master morality.

## Character check-ins

### the Jews

Credited with the triumph of slave morality and the vulgarization of humanity.

### Nietzsche

The silent recipient of the freethinker's epilogue.

## Key lines

> The ‘masters’ have been done away with; the morality of the vulgar man has triumphed.

The ruling class has been overthrown, and common people's values now dominate.

_The freethinker asserts the victory of slave morality._

> The Church certainly is a crude and boorish institution, that is repugnant to an intelligence with any pretence at delicacy, to a really modern taste.

The Church is a vulgar and clumsy organization that offends refined modern sensibilities.

_Critique of the Church as an obstacle to the progress of vulgarization._

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