Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Description
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil appears here in the English translation by Helen Zimmern. Nietzsche opens with a preface mocking dogmatic philosophers, thinkers who claim final systems of truth. He calls Plato's pure spirit and absolute good a noble error now happily outgrown. The book that follows is restless, witty, and deliberately unsettling.
Nine chapters move from the prejudices of philosophers to the free spirit and the religious mood. A chapter of aphorisms, short sharp sayings, interrupts the argument. Later parts give a natural history of morals, reflections on scholars, and portraits of peoples and countries. The final chapter asks what nobility means. Nietzsche urges readers to question herd morality, the values of the crowd, and to create values of their own.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 373 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |