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I suppose that in the future people will appreciate it more and more because of their potential in the future evolution towards themselves. ( )

It's one of the hardest books I have ever attempted to read. Each Aphorism requires multiple readings. Either that or I am just too thick headed for the ideas and the language in the book. But if you are looking for some intellectual stimulation this book checks all the right ones. ( )

Difficult to read

2/17/22. Beyond Good & Evil Beyond Good and Evil (Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future) by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Why I picked this book up: I had it on my shelf in our library. I’ve heard of Nietzsche and had never read anything from him so I decided to check it out.

Thoughts: first of all, I found Nietzsche difficult, his writing was deep to me. It was both deep and simple too. He did not like the dichotomy of good and evil. He goes beyond the concepts of good and evil and beyond pairs of opposites. He looks at appearance and reality, will and reason, and beyond true and false. He criticized past philosophers and points out how they were lacking. Like Descartes’ “I Think Therefore I Am” doesn’t go far enough. He asks “why” with many concepts from the past like Descartes, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, the will to power, he thinks philosophers were not really about truth but really about power. He wants power of truth, existence, biology, the material world, organic power, struggle, competing wills, he thinks we really want power, perspective, Christianity, slave morality, religiousness neurosis, powerlessness, the afterlife, military, free spirits, nihilism. Overall it seems there is more needed to finish his work

Why I finished this read: I found this book difficult to understand and wondered if it was the translation or if the concepts were above my thoughts.

Why I finished this read: I first put it down, not wanting to finish it and blamed the difficulty I had in the translation then I plowed through it. I wanted t say I finished it which I did but I may have missed important thing in this book.

Stars rating: I want to give it 2/5 stars but don’t think I should rate it that low. I will give it 3/5 but think I am likely rating it lower than it deserves but that is where I’m rating it. I might read it and like it more in the future. ( )