Beyond Good And Evil

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By (author) Nietzsche Friedrich; Introduction by Tanner, Michael; Translated by Hollingdale, R. J.

Short /annotation:
Rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. This work demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a ”slave morality”. It promotes a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own ”will to power” upon the world.

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”One of the greatest books of a very great thinker” Michael Tanner

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche”s position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche seeks to demonstrate that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a ”slave morality”. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual impose their own ”will to power” upon the world.

Translated by R. J. HOLLINGDALE With an Introduction by MICHAEL TANNER

Table of contents:
On the prejudices of philosophers; the free spirit; the religious nature; maxims and interludes; on the natural history of morals; we scholars; our virtues; people and fatherlands; what is noble?; from high mountains – epode.

Biographical note:
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) published, among other titles, Human, All Too Human and The Dawn. He divorced himself from public life and, in 1889, became insane, remaining in a condition of mental and physical paralysis until his death. R J Hollingdale translated eleven of Nietzsche”s books and published two books about him. Michael Tanner is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.