Nietzsche on Good and Evil - (English-Chinese Bilingual Reader) (English-Chinese Bilingual Reader)

Author: Nietzsche
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: Lovers or experts of Western philosophy, admirers or opponents of German civilization, "adults" with a formed worldview or "youths" with an unformed worldview, cultural history experts or enthusiasts, students from primary to university level. In 1886-1887, Nietzsche, in his forties, compiled the aphorisms, maxims, and topics he had written while traveling, publishing them in two volumes titled Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality. The common theme of these two books is: "Destroy the old morality, re-evaluate all values." He believed that there is no inherent good or evil in the universe; the sense of guilt is self-deception, and the "original sin" concept of Westerners is even more so. He opposed the Christian evaluation of life as good or evil, advocating that all value judgments should be considered from the perspective of the self. He urged people not to suppress the instincts of life, to enjoy life, and to create joy in living for themselves, as human life transcends good and evil. He craved "evil," craved a future of "evil," but this evil was "great evil" rather than "small evil." The world had entered a "time of the lower classes": "The lower classes do not know what is great, what is small, what is innocent, or what is upright."