Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Paperback
(Independently published, March 26, 2020)
This is the annotated version of the original eBook. This is the Summarized Version of the original book. This Summarized Version Consists of approximately 55% to 65% of the original book consisting of approximately 37500 words. The Brief description of the eBook is written as follows.Beyond Good and Evil: is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that expands the ideas of his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and polemical approach. It was first published in 1886.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.Of the four "late-period" writings of Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil most closely resemble the aphoristic style of his middle period. In it, he exposes the deficiencies of those usually called "philosophers" and identifies the qualities of the "new philosophers": imagination, self-assertion, danger, originality, and the "creation of values". He then contests some of the key presuppositions of the old philosophic tradition like "self-consciousness", "knowledge", "truth", and "free will", explaining them as inventions of the moral consciousness. In their place, he offers the "will to power" as an explanation of all behavior; this ties into his "perspective of life", which he regards as "beyond good and evil", denying a universal morality for all human beings. Religion and the master and slave moralities feature prominently as Nietzsche re-evaluates deeply held humanistic beliefs, portraying even domination, appropriation and injury to the weak as not universally objectionable.The work consists of 296 numbered sections and an "epode" (or "after the song") entitled "From High Mountains". The sections are organized into nine parts:Part One: On the Prejudices of PhilosophersPart Two: The Free SpiritPart Three: The Religious EssencePart Four: Maxims and InterludesPart Five: On the Natural History of MoralsPart Six: We ScholarsPart Seven: Our VirtuesPart Eight: Peoples and FatherlandsPart Nine: What is Noble?