Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0679724656
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy. In nine parts the book is designed to give the reader a comprehensive idea of Nietzche's thought and style. With an inclusive index of subjects and persons.
preserve, to preserve alive whatever can possibly be preserved; indeed, as a matter of principle, they side with these cases as religions for sufferers; they agree with all those who suffer life like a sickness and would like to make sure that every other feeling about life should be considered false and should become impossible. Even if the very highest credit is given to this considerate and preserving care, which, besides being directed toward all the others, was and is also directed toward
teacher through and through takes all things seriously only in relation to his students—even himself. 64 “Knowledge for its own sake”—that is the last snare of morality: with that one becomes completely entangled in it once more. 65 The attraction of knowledge would be small if one did not have to overcome so much shame on the way. 65a1 One is most dishonest to one’s god: he is not allowed to sin. 66 The inclination to depreciate himself, to let himself be robbed, lied
painful experiments than the softhearted and effeminate taste of a democratic century could approve? No doubt, these coming philosophers will be least able to dispense with those serious and by no means unproblematic qualities which distinguish the critic from the skeptic; I mean the certainty of value standards, the deliberate employment of a unity of method, a shrewd courage, the ability to stand alone and give an account of themselves. Indeed, they admit to a pleasure in saying No and in
represents an effort to rise “beyond” simpleminded agreement and disagreement, beyond the vulgar faith in antithetic values, “beyond good and evil.” The point of that title is not that the author considers himself beyond good and evil in the crudest sense, but it is in part that he is beyond saying such silly things as “the Jews are good” or “the Jews are evil”; or “free spirits” or “scholars” or “virtues” or “honesty” or “humaneness” are “good” or “evil.” Everywhere he introduces distinctions,
interpenetration and mutual misunderstanding of both, and at times they occur directly alongside each other—even in the same human being, within a single soul.5 The moral discrimination of values has originated either among a ruling group whose consciousness of its difference from the ruled group was accompanied by delight—or among the ruled, the slaves and dependents of every degree. In the first case, when the ruling group determines what is “good,” the exalted, proud states of the soul are