Nietzsche attacks traditional morality and the philosophers who built it, arguing for a revaluation of values beyond good and evil. An aphoristic prelude to a philosophy of the future.
Books mentioned in Beyond Good and Evil (2)
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “It is certain that it was not the "Wars of Independence" that made him look up more joyfully, any more than it was the French Revolution,--the event on account of which he RECONSTRUCTED his "Faust," and indeed the whole problem of "man," was the appearance of Napoleon.”
On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer: “Hear, for instance, with what innocence--almost worthy of honour--Schopenhauer represents his own task, and draw your conclusions concerning the scientificness of a "Science" whose latest master still talks in the strain of children and old wives: "The principle," he says (page 136 of the Grundprobleme der Ethik)”
Books that mention Beyond Good and Evil (2)
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “He’d arrived in England with only his oud, cigarettes and a copy of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil.”
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand: “"-The noble soul has reverence for itself.-" (Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.)”