Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche · Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Assigned by 5 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1886
- Form
- Treatise
- Language
- German
- Length
- Medium · 240 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Difficult4 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendBeyond Good and Evil, translated by Walter KaufmannVintage, 1989Kaufmann's translation and notes remain the ones most programs assign.
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Nine chapters of numbered aphorisms and short essays attacking the assumptions of past philosophers, who Nietzsche says dressed their prejudices up as truths. He argues that the will to truth itself needs questioning, that morality has been a device of the herd against the exceptional individual, and that a coming generation of free spirits and philosophers of the future must create values rather than discover them. The final chapters distinguish master morality from slave morality and ask what is noble.
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