Beyond Good and evil german Jenseits von Gut und Bse; subtitled quot;Prelude to a Philosophy of the Futurequot; German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting JudeoChristian premises in their consideration of morality.
The work moves into the realm quot;beyond good and evilquot; 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.