Nietzsche believes that people in his era are hypocritical. That is why he criticizes people. Nietzsche believes that he is the "voice of all oppressed people." He believes there is a new age coming and it is called the twilight of the idols. He thinks that this new ear will subvert Christian authority, which has dominated the people's way of life up to this point. The twilight indicates that the sun is finally setting. The Christian idols will descend and new sets of values are being created. Through genealogy, which is the family tree of humanity, Nietzsche will give a historical account to explain how we got to this era. Nietzsche feels that genealogy must be gray, not blue. It cannot be blue, because blue symbolizes the sky. Genealogy cannot be concerned with loftiness or height; instead genealogy must be concerned with low or base origins. The purpose of the critique shows that our traditional values derive from lowly origins. Also, values of pity and selflessness make us want to destroy ourselves. Humans have never sought to know themselves; thus this is the first investigation of the self. In this essay I will hopefully be able to examine Nietzsche's genealogy, reconstruct the genealogical stage, and finally analyze the characteristic of the overman.
             There are three questions concerned with genealogy. No one has ever questioned the word value before. So Neitzsche asks, "What is the term value?" Until this point selflessness was considered the highest value. He will justify his moral philosophy on "The meek shall Inherit the earth," then all the meanings must be reversed. Whatever common sense tells us is good is now bad, because common sense tells us the true value of selflessness. The second question deals with the true false reversal, if it is the case that the truth was reversed, which reversed it, then why did the reversal falsify the value? He uses the priest t...