A tough book by a great mind, it's hard to follow him all the time, you definitely can't read it in one go and digest it that way, you have to take it in small chunks. And even if you don't always agree with his thoughts, they certainly get you thinking.
From the back cover:
"Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world."
Impressed Marianne! How many pages is it? Someday I may get to Nietzsche.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't all that long, only 384 pages. And that's in German, I suppose the English translation will be a little shorter. Anyway, personally, I'd start with "Thus spoke Zarathustra as did I.392 pags, so about the same length.
DeleteHappy reading and happy philosphizing.
Beyond Good and Evil is a profound book about the Power, passion, and love of individuals. Nietzsche offers us in this book a way of life, in which one's Will to Power is the fundamental principle of society, and the individual.
ReplyDeleteNietzsche criticizes every philosophy hitherto, as having been deceived by a presupposed moral system, or at least a moral end-goal, therefore not reaching for truth, rather, making truths so as to validate its moral preachings.
Thank you so much for that comment, it is so nice to read the explanation of this highly interesting book.
DeleteI hope you received my thanks.