ABSTRACT
The Genealogy perhaps comes closest, which is why it is the ultimate subject and the most widely assigned Nietzschean text. But the subject of Nietzsche's Genealogy the critique of morality is hardly unique to that work, and it has both a conceptual pre-history in earlier works and receives further important development in contemporaneous and later works. One of the standing problems in the interpretation of Nietzsche is how to define the precise scope of his critique of morality. Morality in his pejorative sense (MPS) for Nietzsche depends for its intelligibility on descriptive theses about human agency. Nietzsche's fatalism to have any bite, of course, it must turn out that the natural facts significantly circumscribe the possible trajectories. Although Nietzsche's repudiation of free will- the "error of free will" as he calls it (TI VI: 7) - is well known, his reasons for rejecting it do not depend on the truth of classical determinism.
