Transvaluation of values
The revaluation of all values or transvaluation of all values is a concept from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Meaning
The revaluation of all values is the process by which actions and beliefs previously thought to be good and righteous come to be seen as evil and wrong, and vice-versa. Nietzsche believed post-exile Judaism and Christianity were part of a revaluation of values whereby master morality was supplanted at all levels of society by slave morality. In his later works, Nietzsche expresses his interest in spearheading a new revaluation of all values against Judeo-Christian morality and egalitarianism.Unfinished book series
The Revaluation of All Values was also the title of a four-book series Nietzsche was planning to write, meant to be structured as follows:- Book I — The Antichrist. An Attempted Criticism of Christianity.
- Book II — The Free Spirit. A Criticism of Philosophy as a Nihilistic Movement.
- Book III — The Immoralist. A Criticism of the most Fatal Kind of Ignorance: Morality.
- Book IV — Dionysus. The Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence.