Nonfiction · 1886
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · translated by Helen Zimmern
Friedrich Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886 at his own expense. Its nine parts, in numbered sections that range from a line to several pages, attack the assumptions of philosophers, moralists, scholars and nations, and sketch what he called a philosophy of the future.
This edition uses the English translation by Helen Zimmern, first published in 1906 and prepared with the author’s sister’s authorisation; it was for decades the standard English version. The closing poem, “From the Heights”, is given in L. A. Magnus’s translation, as in that edition.
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Contents
- Preface
- Chapter I — Prejudices of Philosophers
- Chapter II — The Free Spirit
- Chapter III — The Religious Mood
- Chapter IV — Apophthegms and Interludes
- Chapter V — The Natural History of Morals
- Chapter VI — We Scholars
- Chapter VII — Our Virtues
- Chapter VIII — Peoples and Countries
- Chapter IX — What Is Noble?
- From the Heights
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Part of Essential Philosophy.
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About the author
1844–1900 · Victorian
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was born in Röcken, Prussia, the son of a Lutheran pastor, and became professor of classical philology at Basel at twenty-four. Ill health forced his retirement in 1879; he then wrote, in rapid succession and largely unread, the books on which his influence rests — Human, All Too Human, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols. He collapsed in Turin in January 1889 and spent his last eleven years in the care of his mother and sister.
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