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Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women's emancipation.
Aug 12, 2002 · Nietzsche, Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil, Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Judith Norman (eds.), translated by Judith Norman, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 193pp, $14.00 (pbk), ISBN 0521770785. Introductions to earlier English translations of Beyond Good and Evil (BGE) hail it as “one of the great books of the nineteenth-century, indeed of any ...
Genius Annotation. 1 contributor. Beyond Good and Evil, originally published in 1886, following Thus Spoke Zarathustra, is one of his most important books. Its nine parts, with their descriptive ...
Recommended translation: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Random House, 1966. Excerpt: The will to truth which will still tempt us to many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all philosophers so far have spoken with respect—what questions has this will to truth not laid before us!
188. Every morality is - in contrast to laisser aller [letting go] - a part of tyranny against "nature," also against "reason": that is, however, not yet an objection to it. For to object, we would have to decree, once again on the basis of some morality or other, that all forms of tyranny and irrationality are not permitted.
Oct 21, 2014 · * Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings by renowned artists, Beyond Good and Evil 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 ...
Publisher's summary. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'.
