Beyond Good & Evil

I can think of few instances where an author's reputation is more different from the reality of who he was, what he believed, and what he wrote--perhaps only Machiavelli has been as profoundly misunderstood by history. Today, Nietzsche tends to be thought of as a depressive nihilist, a man who belie......more

I recommend, but with a warning. The vast majority of people will not get much out of this book. Filtering through these reviews, I see a lot of people who are clearly not meant for Nietzsche's writing. They tend to fall under a couple of categories 1) Easily Offended: when Nietzsche says something t......more

For those of you who are unfamiliar with him, Friedrich Nietzsche was an angry little man who protected himself from the Mean Old World by swaddling himself in an exaggerated ego (and an even more exaggerated moustache). Rather than suggest that you read any or all of his works, I've taken the libert......more

290. Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. If Nietzsche had started here – rather than nearly ending with this thought – he might have been more comprehensible. His readers might have said – ‘oh, right, so that is how it is going to be, is it? We’re dealin......more

Nietzsche persuasively asserts that philosophers must move beyond the dogmatic binary of good and evil or true and false. These are not representative of humankind's morality. Nietzsche argues that one's free will is questionable, and Manicheanism fosters master-slave moralities. Christianity, in pa......more