Beyond Good and Evil

This makes you smarter while you read it

this was a gift for my boyfriend, great book to add to the collection

i feel strangely let down by this design and i'm not sure why. i think i expected the red banner to be PART of the book and not just a sleeve? it was wrinkled on the inside and it also wasn't folded correctly so the sleeve was sticking out at weird angles, but that wasn't the end of the world. i think what gets to me is that it's the annoying sort of texture that will leave a smear/scratch behind when anything brushes across it no matter how lightly. i'll probably just take the whole thing off and let the book live in it's darkened glory. the book by itself is pure black, including the spine, you won't be able to tell what it is when it's on your bookshelf unless you know what you're looking for and reading the title is an effort unless you're fairly up close and personal. which works out better for me because it's less likely that i have to explain to my mom that i'm not integrating myself into a shadow society of lunatics, i just really want anyone who comes over and sees that i own this book to think i'm really open minded and intellectual. stupid commentary aside, he really is a brilliant writer. what an eloquent dude. what an amazing moustache. absolute legend. ps. pages are indeed as thin as everyone says but it wasn't really something i noticed while i was reading

Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil is best read with a brief preface. I’ll try to supply some words which could help. Since the Renaissance and Enlightenment, European intellectuals had oft abandoned belief in the Biblical God. From the American founders to Edward Gibbon, it was fashionable to regard miracles, prophecies and divine intervention as so much superstition. When Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God he meant something different. He meant there are no laws of nature undergirding the universe, no immutable logic for all rational beings to conform to and, most notoriously, no morality. This is why he speaks so much against Spinoza and Voltaire. They each recognized some form of the deity which either was one with the universe or stood above it and provided the philosophical support the Enlightenment movement needed. Contrast Nietzsche, for whom each philosopher creates his own truth, each artist his own world, each man his own values. He is beyond God, or as he put it, beyond good and evil. Nietzsche saw that Western civilization, even in the nineteenth century, would topple like a Jenga tower if the essential deity piece was removed. Why follow Victorian virtue if man is just another animal? Why create art that mimics nature if there are no objective laws for this nature? Why even trust in reason if it is nothing but another way of obtaining nourishment and reproduction? And so Nietzsche doesn’t just criticize the believers but also the artists, the intellectuals and anyone who continued to persist in recognizing an external, rational order in nature. And, of course, Nietzsche was later to fall into severe vertigo after this vision. Perhaps it was simply too high for one man to maintain. Regardless of his biography, Beyond Good and Evil is arguably the last work Nietzsche wrote while sane and thus highly recommended as the final thoughts of this problematic yet great thinker.

Good book. This writer might have a future.

I recently had the opportunity to delve into Friedrich Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil," and I must say it is a profoundly thought-provoking and compelling piece of literature. Nietzsche's exploration of morality and the human condition is both insightful and challenging. The way he delves into the complexities of morality and the nature of good and evil is truly thought-provoking. His writing style is engaging, and he presents his ideas in a manner that encourages deep reflection and introspection. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in philosophy and existentialism, as it offers a unique perspective that prompts readers to question and reevaluate their own beliefs and values. Nietzsche's work continues to be relevant and influential, and "Beyond Good and Evil" is a timeless piece of literature that has the power to broaden one's understanding of the human experience.

Exactly what u would get from Barnes and Noble

I am excited to read this as soon as I get some peace and quiet.

Arrivato nei tempi giusti e integra ottimo stato. Soddisfatto

الكتاب جيد وانصحكم فيه

Good quality. Highly recommended

A great philosophical classic. The book itself is made from sturdy, high quality materials and feels nice to hold (and looks great on a bookshelf!).