If ever there was a thinker who swam against the social and ethical tide of his day, it was Nietzsche. Nineteenth-century Europe was for him a moral wasteland filled with false altruism, duplicity, double standards, and, worst of all, moral complacency. Nietzsche shocked his readers to the core by openly speaking their innermost thoughts: morality serves the social good, which for him meant fostering the best possible society - one that strives for excellence and abhors the herd mentality. By rejecting the "standards" of contemporary morality, Nietzsche thought, one stood a chance of going beyond good and evil to a community in which superior moral agents who understand human nature would rise above vacuous egalitarianism and the dominant schools of ethical theory to construct a moral aristocracy that would spearhead a new social renaissance. Nietzsche is at once unsettling, compelling, and provocative.
- ISBN10 0140442677
- ISBN13 9780140442670
- Publish Date 25 January 1973 (first published 4 April 1885)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 December 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 240
- Language English