Beyond Good and Evil

Show Excerpt ting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand women--that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman? Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won; and at present every kind of dogma stands with sad and discouraged mien--IF, indeed, it stands at all! For there are scoffers who maintain that it has fallen, that all dogma lies on the ground--nay more, that it is at its last gasp. Helen Zimmern translation. But to speak seriously, there are good grounds for hoping that all dogmatizing in philosophy, whatever solemn, whatever conclusive and decided airs it has assumed, may have been only a noble puerilism and tyronism; and probably the time is at hand when it will be once and again understood WHAT has actually sufficed for the basis of such imposing and absolute philosophical edifices as the dogmatists have hitherto reared: perhaps some popular superstition of imm

. About the AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, whose critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered around a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, whose critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered around a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.

a reliable, helpful, well bound edition this latest addition to the stanford nietzsche series offers the two works that are probably the best introduction to nietzsche's thought and style ("Suppose Truth is a woman — what then?"). the translation is excellent and thoroughly reliable, if not quite as insightful as the kaufmann version; the endnotes are helpful, if not quite. Love the very large pages Love the very large pages, even though there is a minute amount of space on the margins the large page size allows for detailed annotation without overcrowding of the page. The covers also have a rich velvet feel, though the design is a bit pixelated. Overall a perfect purchase for the price, especially if you'll be writing all over it and. BGAE Bradford A. Harkness If you have not read this I must ask why. Then I must ask you to ask yourself why. Anything by Nietzche is not just interesting and a learning experience, it is hillarious as well. despite the label of being a nihlist, given by people who never read him or disagree with him, Nietzche has a profound insight to life that is actually quite jo