Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, ranks among the most influential works of moral philosophy to have shaped contemporary conceptions of identity, religion, democracy, psychology, and individual freedom in our age of mass societies. A devastating and deliberately provocative critique of modernity, including science, arts, and politics, the book indicts European and especially Christian morality as hypocritical and opposed to anyone who affirms life itself. Nietzsche disputes that a universal morality can exist for all human beings, and argues that any moral system relies on value judgments grounded in individual perspective rather than inherent truth.
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Contents
Preface by Friedrich Nietzsche
Part I. On the Philosophers’ Prejudices
Part II. The Free Spirit
Part III. The Religious Character
Part IV. Aphorisms and Interludes
Part V. On the Natural History of Morality
Part VI. We Scholars
Part VII. Our Virtues
Part VIII. Peoples and Homelands
Part IX. What Is Noble?
From Mountaintops
A Word About Nietzsche and the Values of Life by Martin Buber
Nietzsche’s Immoralism by Philippa Foot
Chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Life
Note on the Translation
Suggested Further Reading
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Martin Buber (1878-1965) was an enormously prolific moral philosopher whose work examines Hasidism, scripture, and dialogic thinking. His best-known work is I and Thou.