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Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Roy McMillan
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Continuing where Thus Spoke Zarathustra left off, Nietzsche's controversial work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the 19th century and one of the most controversial works of ideology ever written.

Attacking the notion of morality as nothing more than institutionalised weakness, Nietzsche criticises past philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of moral precepts. Nietzsche tried to formulate what he called "the philosophy of the future".

Alex Jennings reads this new translation by Ian Johnston.

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Alex Jennings reading is a facilitator for Nietzsche's words. It might be the case that Nietzsche's language was intended for a small crowd as he himself says: "one fear the philosopher has is to be understood", but I would say that it's not that hard to grasp.

A must read

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I thought this was instruction but guess I was wrong. A very good read, but unfortunately I did go beyond good and evil and nobody can stop me.

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Went too far beyond…

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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I came into this book as a complete philosophical novice, and I must say I've had an awful lot of difficulty grappling with the verbosity and name dropping of Nietzsche.

I've had some moments of lucidity where I think I've benefited from listening to Beyond Good and Evil, but mostly it has been impenetrable.

So if you're looking to dip your toe into western philosophy, I'd recommend looking for something more gentle to start with!

Has Beyond Good and Evil put you off other books in this genre?

Certainly not. But I'll be looking for a more broad introduction to the genre next.

What about Alex Jennings and Roy McMillan ’s performance did you like?

The narrator's sharp, snide intonations of Nietzsche's put downs and humiliations of other philosophies really help bring things to life.

Not for the uninitiated!

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Nietzsche presents powerful challenges to anti-realist philosophy but falls far short of presenting a coherent alternative or effectively engaging with well grounded realist approaches.

The book is surprisingly short for German philosophy and very worth your time for academic purposes, even if there's little insight that can really be taken forward to building your own moral view.

He also holds the strange and conflicting positions of:

Finding all moral systems to be essentially baseless,

While presenting 'master' morality to be superior to 'slave' morality using what by his own standards can only be personal preference.

Also there is large sections of obviously false information and observations about Women that makes it difficult to take ideas that surround them as much more than confused ramblings.

Seminal, misguided work with powerful critiques

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loved this book the way it was slightly changed to make it more accessible was brilliant done I've loved this book so insightful of the way society was becoming if you listen to this book and look at society you will see he saw it all coming

brilliant

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