Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future - Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophical Inquiry: Exploring Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a ... a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche

by Friedrich Nietzsche

us not be ungrateful to it, although it must certainly be confessed that the worst, the most tiresome, and the most dangerous of errors hitherto has been a dogmatist error—namely, Plato's invention of Pure Spirit and the Good in Itself. But

millenniums of Christianity (FOR

CHRISTIANITY IS PLATONISM FOR THE “PEOPLE"), produced in Europe a magnificent tension of soul, such as had not existed

The fundamental belief of metaphysicians is THE BELIEF IN ANTITHESES OF VALUES.

now say to myself that the greater part of conscious thinking must be counted among the instinctive functions,

the greater part of the conscious thinking of a philosopher is secretly influenced by his instincts, and forced into definite channels.

And behind all logic and its seeming sovereignty of movement, there are valuations, or to speak more plainly, physiological demands, for the maintenance of a definite mode of life