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Beyond Good and Evil Paperback – 5 May 2003

by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author)

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Rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. This work demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. It promotes a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; 1 edition (27 February 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 014044923X
ISBN-13: 978-0140449235
Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 200 g
Average Customer Review: 2 customer reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3 in Philosophy of Good & Evil
- #6 in History & Criticism of Renaissance Literature
- #21 in Modern Philosophy (Books)

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) published, among other titles, Human, All Too Human and The Dawn. He divorced himself from public life and, in 1889, became insane, remaining in a condition of mental and physical paralysis until his death. R J Hollingdale translated eleven of Nietzsche's books and published two books about him. Michael Tanner is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

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Neal Ames

A Foundation of Modern Thought?

4 January 2019

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In the #metoo age it is refreshing to read the honesty that both German and Russian 18th century authors had and their appreciation for the true state of human nature. Neitzsche blows apart the concept of equality through a few choice thoughts and appreciations.

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Amardeep Singh

This book deserves better.

15 January 2019

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Packing was not good, some marks on the cover, see picture for reference. Paper is too bright. This book deserves a best paper and quality printing.

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snowbat

eBook is not the Kaufmann translation

17 March 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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The eBook and the version of the paperback showing the two eyes in a frame are not the Kaufmann translation. This translation is OK, but you should know that the product information is incorrect.

Additionally, the two versions I refer to use ALL CAPS instead of italics. Nietzsche loves his italics, especially in BGE. It's like he's screaming every other sentence.

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Jeremy David Stevens

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends 'eo ipso.'

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This is the third book I've read of Nietzsche's. The first was a collection from various writings, and the second was "The Anti-Christ." Beyond Good and Evil was Nietzsche's attempt to summarize his entire philosophy into one book. I don't know if I'd ever call anything Nietzsche wrote a summary, but this book does lay out his principles in black-and-white, and it did help me put some of the pieces together.

Below are a few of my takeaways. It's not a summary, because I don't even know if that's possible. So I just wanted to share a few things I've picked up on.

On the will to power:

If modern (nineteenth century) man is no longer going to believe in God, or at least if they're going to tone down His influence a bit, the next logical step for them was the concept of free will. In a post-enlightenment world, people were trying to understand if there really is a God pulling our strings like puppets. If they weren't going to believe that, the next logical step was free will. Nietzsche rejects free will and instead believes in the will to power. Essentially the will to power is his phrase that means people should aim to take power over themselves and create a "superman" or "overman" out of themselves. Nietzsche sees this as an alternative to the concept of free will.

On religion -

Another thing that I noticed about Nietzsche after reading a fair bit of his work is that, as critical as he is of Christianity, he seems to have a bit of an affinity for Buddhism, or at least the principles of Buddhism. Buddhism's primary concept is "life is suffering," right? Nietzsche writes extensively about suffering as well, arguing in part that the cause of all great human advancement is suffering. In the Anti-Christ, he often points out that Buddhism is better than Christianity. To be fair, there was a pretty short list of things that weren't better than Christianity, according to Nietzsche.

I love the short epigrams and how Nietzsche is capable of concentrating so much meaning into such few words-

"Blessed be the forgetful: for they forget their stupidities, too."

"Whoever reaches his ideal transcends 'eo ipso.'"

"'Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise': thus speak the oldest and the youngest serpents."

*eo ipso = thereby

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Illegible

8 March 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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This ebook is illegible. Someone just did an OCR scan of an existing translation, without fixing any of the problems. About once a sentence, two or more words are crammed together likethis.

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noochinator

Judith Norman excels here!

21 June 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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Great translation by Judith Norman! I much prefer it to the standard Walter Kaufmann translation.

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Andrew Z.

Create Space trash formatting ruins otherwise good read

6 March 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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Terrible print job, Create Space. Margins are microscopic, spacing is awful, text is crammed in so tightly I need reading glasses. Buy any other copy.
Good words, bad publisher.

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