Beyond Good and Evil

[James T]

I've never read this but thought it might be fun to try.

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/bygdv10.txt

The name seems a good place to start, Nietzsche is making it clear from the outset that there is a place past good and evil, where we have left good and evil behind. I wonder how he makes his argument?

[premjan]

What is so great about good and evil that it can't be left behind?

[James T]

You're missing the point dude, it's about reading the way Nietzsche did it, not YOU.

[James T]

The table of contents is entertaining in itself. Starting out with philosophers having prejudices (perhaps in the sense of having pre-judged, I wonder what the German spin on this word is).

But why a preface? What does it mean to begin with a preface? At very least Nietzsche is saying that a comment before the main text is required.

And truth is a women, oh shit, we are buggered already.


ETA: A rhetorical reading please.

[premjan]

It seems too elementary to bother reading Nietzsche to find out.

[Dlx2]

It seems too elementary to bother reading Nietzsche to find out.

This.

[BWE]

Kind of unibomberesque...

[David B]

Beyond Good and Evil?

'The name of the God is Abraxas'.

David B (wonders if people still read Hesse, something of a cult figure who rather influenced me 40 years ago, and in particular, his 'Demian')

ETA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demian

The Gnostic deity Abraxas is used as a symbol throughout the text, idealizing the harmonious union of all that is good and all that is evil in the world.

D B (hasn't read this for perhaps 35 years)