Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzche

Beyond Good and Evil is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting Judeo-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 favor of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectivistic nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual. In it he exposes the deficiencies of those usually called "philosophers" and identifies the qualities of the "new philosophers": imagination, self-assertion, danger, originality, and the "creation of values".

Genres: Philosophy, Literature

136 pages, Paperback

Published May 3, 2012

Reviews

[Shelbby Chapa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nietzsche basically tells you that EVERYTHING we believe is right or wrong is totally made up. Like, literally no one has the absolute truth, these are just rules someone came up with a long time ago and we all follow them without thinking.

So question everything and not just swallow the values you were taught!!!!

Everything in life it’s gray and it totally depends on how you see it.

It’s not exactly a light read (some parts are kinda dense), but it really makes you think about why you do what you do and if it’s actually for you or just because someone told you you should.

[Maris Kupruks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very insightful, at time i found myself going back through chapters since at times i found it hard to follow his train of thought, and maybe i can admit that some parts i have bot yet understood. However one can gather that he was searching for a way to further exploration of the mind and broadly everything in this world from a new frontier showing a lot of his complex character and brilliant mind.

[Arran Turton-Phillips · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still just as relevant today.

[Rhy · Rating 2 out of 5]

After a while, my brain stopped perceiving.

[Erik · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don’t know if it is the translation or the book itself that is not good here. It rambles, and is outdated. It doesn’t read like a treatise that can be used in modern life. I know philosophy is of its time, but this really did not work for me. I tried, I read the whole book. I just wonder if I’m not a fan of Nietzsche or this book.