Beyond good and evil

Beyond Good and Evil was first published in 1886. This book is based on the ideas of its author’s previous book Thus Spoke Zarathustra and expands on them, addressing them from a more critical and dialectical perspective. The book was published in a translation by Ali Misbah from the publications of Al-Jamal within the books of Thought and Philosophy, which included Friedrich Nietzsche’s other important writings. A brief about the book Beyond Good and Evil ends. Nietzsche completed writing it in the winter of 1885-1886 and sent it to the Cründer publishing house in Leipzig, but it was rejected. Then he sent it to the Carl Döncker publishing house in Berlin, which was also rejected. He published it at his own expense through Naumann Publishing in Leipzig. Within the first ten months after the book’s release, only 114 copies were sold. In his book, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers, accusing them of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting Christian dogmas in ethics. His work moves beyond traditional ethics, criticizing them destructively, heading toward what lies beyond good and evil. From the book Beyond Good and Evil, for the wickedness of philosophers! I have never known a more piercing phrase than that uttered by Epicurus about Plato and the Platonists when he called them: Dionysokolaكس. It apparently means: flatterers of Dionysus, i.e., sycophants to the tyrant. However, it also means that they are all actors, and there is nothing serious about them: the term Dionysokolaكس was a popular name given to actors. This latter meaning is the true essence of the evil arrow Epicurus shot at Plato: it was his admiration for the grandeur and flair of self-presentation that Plato and his disciples mastered, something Epicurus, the old teacher from Samos, who sat incognito inside his small garden near Athens to free three hundred books, did not master. Who knows, perhaps he did it out of spite and arrogance toward Plato? It took a thousand years for Greece to finally discover who Epicurus really was, that hidden god in his garden, but did they truly discover that? Beyond Good and Evil quotes Should we be completely inhuman to feel the opposite direction? Who prefers to remain incomprehensible: every deep thinker fears being understood more than he fears being misunderstood.