After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsehe refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil.Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought and creation.

After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsehe refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil.Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought and creation. Nietzsehe especially targets what he calls a "slave morality" that fosters herdlike quiescence and stigmatizes the "highest human types."

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

I PREJUDICES OF PHILOSOPHERS

II THE FREE SPIRIT

III THE RELIGIOUS MOOD

IV APOPHTHEGMS AND INTERLUDES

V THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MORALS

VI WE SCHOLARS

VII OUR VIRTUES

VIII PEOPLES AND COUNTRIES

IX WHAT IS NOBLE?

FROM THE HEIGHTS