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Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, presents a scathing critique of traditional morality and attacks previous philosophers for their blind acceptance of Christian ideals of virtue. As an alternative to what he viewed as the illogical and irrelevant philosophy of the nineteenth century, Nietzsche argues for the importance of imagination, self-assertion, danger, and originality for genuine philosophy. He furthermore denies the existence of a universal system of morality and instead offers a framework in which social roles and power dynamics dictate what is appropriate. A culmination of Nietzsche's mature philosophy, Beyond Good and Evil is a classic of moral thought and one of the foundations of existentialism. This edition is the translation by Helen Zimmern.

Public Domain (P)2011 Tantor Philosophy Morality
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Nietzsche is difficult to understand at the best of times, but this reading needlessly makes him more difficult to understand. Crossley’s reading of the words is good and enthusiastic, but he does not read out the section numbers. Without saying that this section is number such and such, it is difficult to know where one of Nietzsche’s thoughts has ended and another begins. This is especially bad in the Maxims and Interludes sections, where separate sentence-long aphorisms sound like a single paragraph.

Well read, but confusingly read

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