Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Jenseits von Gut und Böse) is a major 19th century philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche.

First published in 1886 at Nietzsche's own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He attacked philosophers for what he considered to be their lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their considerations of morality and values. Beyond Good and Evil is a comprehensive overview of Nietzsche's mature philosophy, written partly with the motive of giving further explanation to ideas presented in his previous work, Also Sprach Zarathustra (or Thus Spoke Zarathustra). Nietzsche's next book, On the Genealogy of Morals, is meant to serve by way of "supplementation and clarification" to Beyond Good and Evil, and so should be read in this context.

Table of 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 — poem translated by LA Magnus

Bibliography

• Beyond Good and Evil (ISBN 1599869934)

External links

• Good and Evil — English language edition.
• Beyond Good and Evil — German language edition.
• Beyond Good and Evil, available freely as an English-language audiobook, at LibriVox.
• A searchable, self-referential edition of Beyond Good and Evil, with concordance
• http://www.uri.edu/personal/szunjic/philos/beyond.htm