# Dühring — The Genealogy of Morals character guide

> Dühring in The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Eugen Dühring

**First appearance:** 0011-first-essay

## Who they are

Philosopher and critic whose anti-Semitic views are used as a foil for Nietzsche's analysis.

## In the story

### [Chapter 11: Justice, Law, and the Reactive Emotions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_genealogy_of_morals_se/chapters/11)

Nietzsche directly opposes Dühring's claim that justice originates in the reactive feelings of resentment, inverting his proposition.

### [The Danger of the Sick and the Will to Power of the Weakest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_genealogy_of_morals_se/chapters/14)

Cited as a prime example of the resentful moral blusterer, using moral refuse for revenge.

### [Chapter 26](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_genealogy_of_morals_se/chapters/26)

Mentioned as an example of a completely unhistorical and anti-historical thinker, contrasted with the 'contemplative' historians Nietzsche despises.

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