Beyond Good and Evil Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

Beyond Good and Evil (Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future) covers Nietzsche's ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more polemical approach.<br/><br/>Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man.<br/><br/>Quotes:<br/><br/>“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”<br/><br/>“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”<br/><br/>“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”