English-Chinese Bilingual Reader Nietzsche on Good and Evil

Author: (German) Nietzsche
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Lovers or experts of Western philosophy, admirers or opponents of German civilization, "adults" with a formed worldview or "youths" with an undefined worldview, cultural history experts or enthusiasts, middle school, high school, and university students. In 1886-1887, Nietzsche, in his forties, compiled the aphorisms, maxims, and topics he had written during his travels into 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; a sense of guilt is self-deception, and the "original sin" theory 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 their own perspective. He urged people not to suppress the instincts of life, to enjoy life, and to create joy in life for themselves, because human life is beyond 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 "villain era": "Villains do not know what is great, what is small, what is guiltless, and what is upright."