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Beyond Good and Evil

Original title: Jenseits von Gut und Böse

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), trans. Helen Zimmern

Translation en 62459 words First published 1886 Germany

Nietzsche's 1886 sequel to Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the sharpest statement of his mature philosophy. Where Zarathustra sang, this book dissects: the prejudices of philosophers, the 'herd' morality of the many, the will to power beneath every claimed truth, and the failure of previous thinkers to look beyond the categories of good and evil. Aphoristic, polemical and deliberately difficult, it is the essential companion for anyone who wants to understand modern philosophy's turn away from inherited certainties — and the mind that made 'God is dead' famous.

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Table of Contents

  1. 001 PREFACE SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman--what then? 2605 words
  2. 002 8. There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of… 2877 words
  3. 003 17. With regard to the superstitions of logicians, I shall never tire… 2611 words
  4. 004 CHAPTER II. THE FREE SPIRIT 24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange… 2737 words
  5. 005 32. Throughout the longest period of human history--one calls it the… 2588 words
  6. 006 41. One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined… 2572 words
  7. 007 48. It seems that the Latin races are far more deeply attached to… 2522 words
  8. 008 59. Whoever has seen deeply into the world has doubtless divined what… 2505 words
  9. 009 100. We all feign to ourselves that we are simpler than we are, we… 2617 words
  10. 010 188. In contrast to laisser-aller, every system of morals is a sort… 2709 words
  11. 011 195. The Jews--a people "born for slavery," as Tacitus and the whole… 2849 words
  12. 012 203. We, who hold a different belief--we, who regard the democratic… 3125 words
  13. 013 208. When a philosopher nowadays makes known that he is not a… 2629 words
  14. 014 212. It is always more obvious to me that the philosopher, as a man… 2659 words
  15. 015 222. Wherever sympathy (fellow-suffering) is preached nowadays--and… 2684 words
  16. 016 Hail, ye worthies, barrow-wheeling, "Longer--better," aye revealing… 2720 words
  17. 017 239. The weaker sex has in no previous age been treated with so much… 3268 words
  18. 018 245. The "good old" time is past, it sang itself out in Mozart--how… 2892 words
  19. 019 253. There are truths which are best recognized by mediocre minds… 2721 words
  20. 020 258. Corruption--as the indication that anarchy threatens to break… 2577 words
  21. 021 262. A SPECIES originates, and a type becomes established and strong… 3339 words
  22. 022 270. The intellectual haughtiness and loathing of every man who has… 2568 words
  23. 023 292. A philosopher: that is a man who constantly experiences, sees… 2085 words