Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Roy McMillan

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

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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Required reading

Atheist prophet in some of his analysis, but often he comes across as committing the fallacy of assertion and leaps of logic with only belittling insults for other philosophies as his evidence for his own will to power philosophy. It’s an important work to be sure, but Nietzche is not quite the Uberman to which he calls men to rise. The murderous 20th century regimes that made quite an effort to rise beyond good and evil seemed to go quite a long way toward proving that evil exists rather vividly, and very possibly through willing to power their own read on Nietzcheian philosophy. Surely it can’t all be laid at his feet, but setting a will to power as the highest value can’t be held blameless. It’s a powerful argument, but we must learn it well so that it’s pitfalls never lead future nations down such dark paths again.

What clarity!!!

My opinion of the man remains unchanged, a sad damaged and prophetic mind. The depth of insight and misunderstanding truly a mind ahead of its time yet timeless!

great book pretty decent reader / 4 out of 5

would definitely suggest the listen to any nietzshe fan. reader was pretty decent as well

all over the place

this book does not follow a single story but covers a wide range of things many of which has little or nothing to do with each other.

excellent performance

the narrator was very good. Nietzsche is difficult to read. Reading him aloud must be near impossible.

ok

not as sound in terms of philosophy and opinion as I'd expected, but still an interesting and worthwhile text

Deep concepts

I am new to Nietzsche. For me, this was a nice introduction. I feel like i would need to really study or listen repeatedly to fully grasp his work in all its complexity.

My search for the meaning of life continues; but this was another wonderful addition to the relevant data.

Nietzsche's philosophy with a crutch

The prologues before each part really helped me follow the strains of thought in Nietzsche's poetic aphorisms. It felt exhilarating to feel like I actually understood some thoughts and could value their beauty in expression and depth.

The performance is good, I liked the sometime arrogant, intellectually snobby tone, it painted a picture of philosopher's bitter loneliness. After the first listen I feel I only got the general idea of the structure and maybe grasped about 30% of the thoughts put forth. Re-listening some aphorisms in a different mindset and paradigms often allowed me to find deeper meaning. In this way, Nietzsche's writings are like the Bible.

Overall, a valuable work and worth a read, life changing in a non-practical theoretical way. Recommended to free thinkers.

Precious Context Ruined by the Narrater.

The narration by the British accent narrater sounds cocky, goofy, less intellectual, mindless, uneducated, ignorant, arrogant, incompetent, and reluctant.

I am sure he does not understand what he is reading. Jesus, a man who read Nietzsche without an ounce of humility? Annoying to death.

This is disgrace to Nietzsche, and I just want to return my purchase.

WTF do you think you are Narrater? This is not a hip-hop lyrics you sick F**k.

great

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