Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Published August 2016 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (first published 1886)

Category: Business

Pages: 166 pages

ISBN: 9781536887259

Description:
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by Helen Zimmern.

First published in 1886, 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 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.

With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.