Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Helen Zimmern (Translator)

Overview

2020 Reprint of the 1907 Edition. Beyond Good and Evil expands the ideas of his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and polemical approach. It was first published in 1886. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favor of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684224883
Publisher:	Martino Fine Books
Publication date:	08/28/2020
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) published, among other titles, Human, All Too Human and The Dawn. He divorced himself from public life and, in 1889, became insane, remaining in a condition of mental and physical paralysis until his death. R J Hollingdale translated eleven of Nietzsche's books and published two books about him. Michael Tanner is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

Table of Contents

Beyond Good and Evil Introduction
Further Reading
Translator's Note

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

Preface
Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers
Part Two: The Free Spirit
Part Three: The Religious Nature
Part Four: Maxims and Interludes
Part Five: On the Natural History of Morals
Part Six: We Scholars
Part Seven: Our Virtues
Part Eight: People and Fatherlands
Part Nine: What Is Noble?
From High Mountains: Epode
Commentary
Chronology

Editorial Reviews

"Fired with a fearless iconoclasm which surpassed the wildest dreams of contemporary free thought" - The New York Times

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