| Beyond Good and Evil Revised Edition Contributor(s): Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (Author) |
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ISBN: 087975558X ISBN-13: 9780879755584 Publisher: Prometheus Books OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1989 Annotation: If ever there was a thinker who swam against the social and ethical tide of his day, it was Nietzsche. Nineteenth-century Europe was for him a moral wasteland filled with false altruism, duplicity, double standards, and, worst of all, moral complacency. Nietzsche shocked his readers by openly speaking their innermost thoughts: morality serves the social good, which for him meant fostering the best possible society--one that strives for excellence and abhors the herd mentality. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 193 |
| LCCN: 89062325 |
| Lexile Measure: 1420 |
| Series: Great Books in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.46" W x 8.08" (0.84 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: If ever there was a thinker who swam against the social and ethical tide of his day, it was Nietzsche. Nineteenth-century Europe was for him a moral wasteland filled with false altruism, duplicity, double standards, and, worst of all, moral complacency. Nietzsche shocked his readers to the core by openly speaking their innermost thoughts: morality serves the social good, which for him meant fostering the best possible society - one that strives for excellence and abhors the herd mentality. By rejecting the "standards" of contemporary morality, Nietzsche thought, one stood a chance of going beyond good and evil to a community in which superior moral agents who understand human nature would rise above vacuous egalitarianism and the dominant schools of ethical theory to construct a moral aristocracy that would spearhead a new social renaissance. Nietzsche is at once unsettling, compelling, and provocative. |