The great philosophers major work on ethics along with ecce homo nietzches remarkable review of his life and works on the genealogy of morals 1887 shows him using philsophy psychology and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline the work consists of three essays the first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term good has widely different meanings in each the second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad . The content itself is great genealogy of morals is extremely insightful into the human psyche and explains very well where a lot of our morality stems from whats even more interesting in my opinion is that he talks at length about what the psychology of this morality causes in society ecce homo is great on another level its rare to see a great thinker make great note of his faults he talks about his thought process for each book he wrote while this may not seem greatly informative . The great philosophers major work on ethics along with ecce homo nietzches remarkable review of his life and works on the genealogy of morals 1887 shows him using philsophy psychology and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline the work consists of three essays the first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term good has widely different meanings in each the second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad . This edition includes ecce homo nietzsches review of his life and works with the exception of the antichrist these two bo the genealogy of morals consists of three essays exploring morality and its origins where nietzsche makes ample use of his training as a philologist