Nietzsche on Good and Evil. English-Chinese Bilingual Reader

Author: (German) 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 established life views or "youths" with undefined life views, cultural history experts or enthusiasts, middle school, high school, and university students. In 1886-1887, Nietzsche, in his early 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: "Destroying the old morality, re-evaluating 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" concept of Westerners is also self-deception. He opposed the Christian evaluation of life as good or evil and advocated considering all value judgments from the perspective of the self. He urged people not to suppress the instincts of life, to enjoy life, and to create joy in life for themselves, because human life transcends good and evil. He craved "evil," a "future of evil," but this evil was "great evil" rather than "small evil." The world had entered an "age of the petty": "The petty do not know what is great, what is small, what is guiltless, or what is upright."