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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886)

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future.

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. 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 favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

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There’s not much to be said about this book that hasn’t already been said by people a bit more well spoken than me. Took it chapter by chapter when I felt up to it, didn’t gain much insight as opposed to annoyance. ( )
  carr0tmunch | Feb 28, 2024 |
Mostly read this as an sort of counter argument against Brothers Karamazov which I finished just before starting this. Nietzsche is someone I’ve sort of danced around my whole intellectual life - I started and stopped Zarathustra a few times in my late teens, and at some point got around to Birth of Tragedy which had a big impact on me. I find his ideas most cogent when considered as abstractions. I think his writing about art and artists is usually spot on and can be pretty inspiring. I can’t go there with him when it comes to his views on society and politics. Most of Nietzsche’s defenders seem to harp on the fact that he is often speaking metaphorically, symbolically, rhetorically. I think they are often right. But this being so doesn’t mean that these rhetorical choices sound regressive to the modern reader, and there are many moments where it does seem that he literally means what he has written. Perhaps Nietzsche would consider me a degenerated modern underling, devoid of nobility, but I can’t square his denunciations of equity and cultural mixing. I also find it strange that for a book about breaking down the dichotomies of morality is written in such a militant tone - he’s doesn’t seem to be much of a relativist.

Interesting that this year I accidentally read three of the most important philosophers of the 19th century, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and now Nietzsche. Certainly lots to learn from all of them, but I find Dostoyevsky to have the most to say about the breadth of human experience as it is lived today. His pragmatic attitude and down to earth realism when it comes to considering human nature is so prescient when you see what the work of the two others helped to inspire in the following century.

All in all, I find Nietzsche and his thought most useful when going to battle with myself. He sets himself up to antagonize the reader by transgressing boundaries that we seldom consider, much less cross over, in western society. Yet his views on how people can and should interact with one another seem simplistic in a modern world where interdependence is no longer a choice but a sociological imperative. To be an “individual” has a much different definition than it did in 1880, and so who could expect the ideas contained herein not to taste a little off to the modern palate? Yet the most “dangerous” idea contained in this book to my mind is that any edge lord can find his vindication in Nietzsche, claiming that they are stepping beyond the bounds of conventional, “slave” morality by abusing, oppressing, or mindlessly hoarding. ( )
  hdeanfreemanjr | Jan 29, 2024 |
He really beats the phrase "order of rank" into the ground. There is so much good stuff in this book, and so much that it is best to ignore. ( )
  audient_void | Jan 6, 2024 |
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  LarkinPubs | Mar 1, 2023 |
I read this book for school...
I suppose that in the future people will appreciate it more and more because of their potential in the future evolution towards themselves. ( )
  catafest | Dec 31, 2022 |
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Friedrich Nietzscheprimary authorall editionscalculated
Clyne, RonaldCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cowan, MarianneTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Crossley, StevenNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Crowe, IanIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Doren, Stephen VanNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gebhard, WalterAfterword, Chronology, Bibliographysecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Graftdijk, ThomasTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Holingdale, R.J.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Jennings, AlexNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kaufmann, WalterTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kaufmann, Walter ArnoldTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
McMillan, RoyNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sánchez Pascual, AndrésTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Tanner, MichaelIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Beyond Good and Evil is one of the greatest books by a very great thinker, and like all such books it is very difficult, all the more so for not seeming to be.
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Supposing that Truth is a woman—what then? (Zimmern trans.)
1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us!
Introduction (Cowan ed.): Nietzsche has always been more popular with ordinary people than with professional philosophers and among ordinary people it has been chiefly the young who kept his memory alive.
Preface (Cowan trans.): Supposing that Truth is a woman—well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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The original German title is “Jenseits von Gut und Böse; Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft’.
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Literary Criticism. Philosophy. Nonfiction. HTML:

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future.

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. 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 favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

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Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, presents a scathing critique of traditional morality and attacks previous philosophers for their blind acceptance of Christian ideals of virtue. As an alternative to what he viewed as the illogical and irrelevant philosophy of the nineteenth century, Nietzsche argues for the importance of imagination, self-assertion, danger, and originality for genuine philosophy. He furthermore denies the existence of a universal system of morality and instead offers a framework in which social roles and power dynamics dictate what is appropriate. A culmination of Nietzsche's mature philosophy, Beyond Good and Evil is a classic of moral thought and one of the foundations of existentialism. This edition is the translation by Helen Zimmern.
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