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In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.
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German philosopher and renowned scholar Friedrich Nietzsche was born on 15 October 1944, in Rocken, Prussia- Germany. His father was Carl Ludwig Nietzsche and mother Franziska Nietzsche. His father was a Lutheran preacher, who died when Nietzsche was only four-years old. After his father's death Nietzsche family shifted to Naumburg, he studied in a preparatory school and after that he joined prestigious Schulpforts School. He studied in University of Bonn and Leipzig, he was interested in philology, literature, linguistics and history. He did job as a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. His first book' The Birth of Tragedy' was published in 1872 and 'Human, All Too Human' in 1878. Nietzsche believed in realities of life, he glorified the individuals and culture. He openly challenged the basics of Christianity and conventional ethics. He is famous for his thought 'God is dead'. At the early age of 55 years, on 25 August 1900 Nietzsche died. His popular works - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Anti - Christ, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy etc.
