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A review by is_book_loring
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
2.0
Nietzsche was unmistakably a very intelligent person and a distinctly eloquent writer, which makes it unfortunate that his personal prejudices, ego, insecurity and raging emotions overwhelmed the boldness and interesting, insightful motions scattered in this philosophical thesis, rendering it read like at times an impotent, megalomaniac's journal desperate to prove his superior manliness, and at other times a half-mad sage's preach delivered in break-neck speed and inspired passion. He would probably makes a great orator with insane amount of worshippers, if he didn't deliberately attempt to be as incomprehensible as possible merely to display his supreme intellect.
What Nietzsche did in Beyond Good and Evil, was akin to taking an excavator through other scholars and philosophers' theories, destroying their reasonings, chiefly Christianity and authorized traditional moral values: the concept of Good versus Evil. He was great when being a destroyer, smashing and razing belief systems to the ground with his provoking questions and unflinching analysis, but he built nothing valuable on it. Everything he criticized on could be applied to his claims because he was their mirror with inverted values. His ego got so much in the way, that at his attempt to create new values, new philosophers, new truths, new order, etc, etc, he ended up sounding ridiculous, unconsciously hyprocritical, inconsistent; a sad, deeply conflicted sexist, suffering from a chronic case of machismo and delusion of grandiose. So much wasted intelligence.
What Nietzsche did in Beyond Good and Evil, was akin to taking an excavator through other scholars and philosophers' theories, destroying their reasonings, chiefly Christianity and authorized traditional moral values: the concept of Good versus Evil. He was great when being a destroyer, smashing and razing belief systems to the ground with his provoking questions and unflinching analysis, but he built nothing valuable on it. Everything he criticized on could be applied to his claims because he was their mirror with inverted values. His ego got so much in the way, that at his attempt to create new values, new philosophers, new truths, new order, etc, etc, he ended up sounding ridiculous, unconsciously hyprocritical, inconsistent; a sad, deeply conflicted sexist, suffering from a chronic case of machismo and delusion of grandiose. So much wasted intelligence.