This article is about the book by Friedrich Nietzsche. For other uses, see Beyond Good and Evil (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Beyond Freedom and Dignity.
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Beyond Good and Evil
Title page of the first edition.
Author
Friedrich Nietzsche
Original title
Jenseits von Gut und Böse. Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft
Country
Germany
Language
German
Subject
Morality, metaphysics
Published
1886
Media type
Print
Preceded by
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885)
Followed by
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
Text
Beyond Good and Evil at Wikisource
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft) is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra but with a more polemical approach. It was first published in 1886 under the publishing house C. G. Naumann of Leipzig at the author's own expense and first translated into English by Helen Zimmern, who was two years younger than Nietzsche and knew the author.[1][2]
According to translator Walter Kaufman, the title refers to the need for moral philosophy to go beyond simplistic black and white moralizing, as contained in statements such as "X is good" or "X is evil".[1] At the beginning of the book (§ 2), Nietzsche attacks the very idea of using strictly opposite terms such as "Good versus Evil".[1]
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.
^ abcBasic Writings of Nietzsche. Translated by Kaufmann, Walter. New York: Modern Library. 1992. pp. 182–185. ISBN 0-679-60000-0.
^Nietzsche, Friedrich (1997) [translation originally published 1906]. Beyond Good and Evil. Translated by Zimmern, Helen. New York: Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-29868-X.
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