ABSTRACT
Foucault claims that genealogy is different from traditional history in that genealogy opposes itself to the search for origins, where this means a search for the exact essence of things and the existence of immobile forms that precede the external world of accident and succession. Nietzsche's claim is that a culture which embraces the ideology of morality in pejorative sense (MPS) even if it does not act in accordance with this ideology presents the real threat to the realization of human excellence, because it teaches potential higher types to disvalue what would be most conducive to their creativity and value what is irrelevant or perhaps even hostile to it. For the ultimate goal of the Genealogy, remember, is to free nascent higher human beings from their false consciousness about MPS. The Genealogy employs the genealogical method history rightly practiced in order to criticize MPS.
