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Beyond Good and Evil

London : Penguin Group : 1973Description: 10cm : 239 PagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 42198ISBN: 9780140449235Subject(s): Experimental Psychology | PsychologyDDC classification: 153 NEI

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	MAIN LIBRARY Book	PRINT	153 NEI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		112265

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'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche seeks to demonstrate that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual impose their own 'will to power' upon the world.

Translated by R. J. HOLLINGDALE With an Introduction by MICHAEL TANNER

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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. Excerpted from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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