Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War

Re:Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War by mikert89 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:49AM (#49436137)

I had a similar experience, but I think a lot of other modern philosophy is really pedantic and builds upon a thousand years of writings. So its very hard to follow without proper academic study or understanding what its in response to.

Nietzsche has paragraphs that could be studied and independently thought about without even reading the rest of the book/chapter. You can crack open beyond good and evil and just start reading a random page.

I still would argue his thought is far more groundbreaking than any contemporaries

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Re:Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War by pglevy on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:57PM (#49437128)

> paragraphs that could be studied and independently

Yes, but after reading BGE, I felt like I had to read all his other books to really understand what he was saying (and others too, Kant, Spinoza, etc). And then re-read BGE.

Also Walter Kauffman's on him is very good. Working through that now.

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Re:Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War by mikert89 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:02PM (#49438055)

yeah a lot of uneducated analysis was off, but it was still very thought provoking and jarring to my earlier world view.

it depends on which chapters/sections though, some are more accessible than others.

one book I enjoyed is:

"The Mask of Enlightenment" by stanley rosen. I read that along Zarathustra

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