Beyond good and evil: introduction to a future philosophy - by Friedrich Nietzsche

This book, which is a central work among Nietzsche's writings, comes after Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and belongs to the final stage of Nietzsche's intellectual biography. It forms a testing ground for the dynamic ideas that distinguished Nietzsche from other philosophers: from the will to power to eternal recurrence and the Übermensch, passing through the transcendence of metaphysical dualism in the illusion of the self, free will, and the contradiction of values. And we repeat that the importance of this book lies not in what it says and proves, but in how it says and proves. Nietzsche's significance lies rather in his genealogical method. In that, while it appears that multiple meanings are assumed to be one in understanding, it demolishes the logic based on the principle of identity from its foundation. It opens the door, by defying dogma, widely to the infinite. It awakens the "philosophical spirit" from its "dogmatic slumber," making it an essential condition for the possibility of philosophical discourse and renewal throughout the 20th century and beyond. Returning to the content of this book, one can say that Nietzsche prepared it as a break from the excesses of the style that characterized Zarathustra. Nietzsche, this "ancient philologist," skillfully invests available linguistic tools and masters the "use" of his language and words, restoring life to them and "deepening" them, while leaving, or perhaps because of that, room and space for ambiguity and even misunderstanding. He aims to "transfer all problems to feeling, reaching passion." Therefore, the terminology and concepts of the book are presented in a form we have not seen before; they are not merely abstract, pure, and "intellectual," but harsh, strict, and emotional, without being born out of randomness. Number of pages: 288