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Friedrich Nietzsche
"One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired."
In 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche launched his most sustained and exhilarating attack on the foundations of Western philosophy. Beyond Good and Evil dismantles what he calls slave morality — the inversion of values he believed had placed weakness and conformity above genuine vitality and creative power. In its place, he imagines a new kind of philosopher: one who creates values rather than inherits them.
Written in Nietzsche's trademark style of compressed aphorism and sweeping polemic, the book ranges across ethics, epistemology, religion, and the nature of the will with restless, exhilarating energy. Readers call it a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the depths of human existence — a work whose razor-sharp wit forces confrontation with uncomfortable truths about society and the human condition. Its influence on twentieth-century thought, from existentialism to critical theory, has been immense.
This Penguin Select Classics edition presents the original, unabridged text in a premium hardbound collector's format — an essential volume for any serious philosophical library.
