Beyond Good and Evil (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- First Published: 1886
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Christianity, Good and evil, Ethics, Human behavior, Life, philosophy of, Temptation
The Work
Friedrich Nietzsche disputed the long-unexamined notion that morality was an absolute. He believed that morality was relative to the condition in which one finds oneself. In Beyond Good and Evil, he defined two moralities. The “master morality” encouraged strength, power, freedom, and achievement, while the “slave morality” valued sympathy, charity, forgiveness, and humility. Those qualities that the master morality deemed “good,” such as strength and power, were a source of fear to the slave morality and were thus deemed “evil.” Nietzsche...
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