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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

Paper book: €24.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1886
Pages
547
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Philosophy
Moods
Think it through, Understand myself
Translated from
German

Book summary

Here Nietzsche attacks the certainties of philosophers, who claim to seek the truth without bias. He asks where our ideas of good and evil come from, and distinguishes a master morality, which celebrates strength and pride, from a slave morality, which makes virtues of humility and pity.

A provocative book that makes you ask why you believe what you believe. It gave us a famous line: “if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you”.

Written in fragments, often very short ones, it can be read one aphorism at a time, at your own pace, in the language you are learning.

The plot

Goed en kwaad ter discussie. Iedereen denkt te weten wat goed en wat kwaad is. Die regels lijken eeuwig.

The world of the book

Een boek, in Zwitserland bedacht, voor heel Europa. Het voorwoord is in 1885 getekend in Sils-Maria, een dorp in de Zwitserse Alpen waar de auteur de zomers doorbrengt.

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