Overview

Beyond Good and Evil is a comprehensive overview of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mature philosophy that was published in 1886. Nietzsche presents his worldview in a series of 296 two-dimensional aphorisms—ranging in length from a few sentences to a few pages—each approximating a more complex worldview. Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche’s concept of perspectivism in practice: we can read every aphorism as one different perspective from which to look at Nietzsche’s philosophy.

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