Skip to main content
Modern Philosophers
All books

Book

Available now

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche · translated by Helen Zimmern

Nietzsche's critique of the philosophers and moralities of his time, written in nine parts of numbered sections and aphorisms.

Beyond Good and Evil questions the prejudices of philosophers, the value of truth and the origins of moral judgements. Its nine parts range over the free spirit, religion, the natural history of morals, scholars, virtues, peoples and countries, and what is noble.

This edition is the English translation by Helen Zimmern.

What you get

  • The book as EPUB, PDF, delivered to your library after payment.
  • Bought on its own: yours to keep.

Read a passage

  1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us! What strange, perplexing, questionable questions! It is already a long story; yet it seems as if it were hardly commenced. Is it any wonder if we at last grow distrustful, lose patience, and turn impatiently away? That this Sphinx teaches us at last to ask questions ourselves? WHO is it really that puts questions to us here? WHAT really is this "Will to Truth" in us? In fact we made a long halt at the question as to the origin of this Will—until at last we came to an absolute standstill before a yet more fundamental question. We inquired about the VALUE of this Will. Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us—or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem? Which of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could it be believed that it at last seems to us as if the problem had never been propounded before, as if we were the first to discern it, get a sight of it, and RISK RAISING it? For there is risk in raising it, perhaps there is no greater risk.

Contents

  1. 01Preface
  2. 02Chapter I. Prejudices of Philosophers
  3. 03Chapter II. The Free Spirit
  4. 04Chapter III. The Religious Mood
  5. 05Chapter IV. Apophthegms and Interludes
  6. 06Chapter V. The Natural History of Morals
  7. 07Chapter VI. We Scholars
  8. 08Chapter VII. Our Virtues
  9. 09Chapter VIII. Peoples and Countries
  10. 10Chapter IX. What Is Noble?
  11. 11From the Heights
  12. 12By F W Nietzsche
  13. 13Translated by L. A. Magnus

About this edition

Author
Friedrich Nietzsche
Translator
Helen Zimmern
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Advanced: for close, demanding reading
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
142 pages
First published
1886
This edition
Modern Philosophers