Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781497415768)

Beyond Good and Evil is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but with a more critical and polemical approach. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. 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 favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
ISBN-10: 1497415764
ISBN-13: 9781497415768
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2014
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.32d