Beyond Good and Evil

What it is about

Nietzsche attacks the assumption that inherited moral categories are timeless truths. Through aphorism, polemic, and psychological speculation, he investigates philosophers’ hidden drives, the creation of values, herd morality, free spirits, and the risks of intellectual independence. The book is less a system than a sustained provocation to examine who benefits from a belief. I keep it on this shelf because I want to stay honest about meaning, responsibility, and the stories I use to live.

Why I keep it

Nietzsche taking the floor out from under morality. I keep falling.

Key ideas

Beside it on the shelf · Philosophy & Meaning