Walking the Tightrope

Curtis Cate gives us a good overview of the primary areas covered in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil . It should be noted that the secondary title " Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future " reveals that Nietzsche intended this work as the starting point for a grander philosophic project that was ultimately never completed.  Nietzsche aimed to develop a new basis for high culture, societal values, and personal style by clarifying how the mechanics for existing culture and morality actually work.   Beyond Good and Evil discusses many of these basic mechanics in an often provocative way. Nietzsche continued to build upon many of his earlier fundamental constructs. For example, the relevant and insightful concept of being a "free-spirit" is still very much present in his new work. "The very title, Beyond Good and Evil , summed up what had long been a cardinal tenet of Nietzsche's Freigeisterei : the ability of any 'free-spirited' thinker must dis...