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Beyond Good and Evil
work by Nietzsche
Also known as: “Jenseits von Gut und Böse”
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contribution to ethics
- In ethics: Nietzsche
In Beyond Good and Evil (1886), he wrote with approval of “the distinguished type of morality,” according to which “one has duties only toward one’s equals; toward beings of a lower rank, toward everything foreign to one, one may act as one sees fit, ‘as one’s…
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discussed in biography
- In Friedrich Nietzsche: Decade of isolation and creativity (1879–89) of Friedrich Nietzsche
…von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil) and in 1887 of Zur Genealogie der Moral (On the Genealogy of Morals), also failed to win a proper audience.
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German literature
- In German literature: Friedrich Nietzsche
…von Gut und Böse (1886; Beyond Good and Evil) proclaimed the new ideals. In these works, Nietzsche also questioned the value of truth and knowledge, espousing the view that “facts are precisely what there is not, only interpretations.” Nietzsche’s perspectivism, reflected in the composition of some of his works as…
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