It is very much the case that Nietzsche hopes that the elite of the future will be less unwilling to make use of evil, but his is a spiritual revision of evil, not a jackboot. True, he thinks German-ness very important, but he ridicules racism and abhors anti-jewism. But, while he looks towards the construction of a bold, iron-hearted leader for a new and unified Europe, he expects this to come through philosophy. So, was Nietzsche the philosopher of Nazism? His literary executor, his sister Elisabeth, was clearly that way inclined. He saw that knowledge is never objective but always serves some interest or some unconscious purpose, and that the 'slave morality' of Christianity has helped build a foolish system of values which comfort failure. His ideal übermensch, or 'Overman', would impose his will on the weak and worthless. In The Dawn, The Gay Science, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Towards a Genealogy of Morals, Ecce Homo, and here in Beyond Good and Evil he argues that 'God is dead', that new thinkers are needed, free to create their own values. But both these attractions passed, and ill health led him to leave the academic life to devote himself to producing a whole series of, in his time, unsold and unread books expounding his ideas with a boldness which is as much poetry as philosophy. At first he was deeply influenced by the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer and the music of Richard Wagner, to whom he was both friend and advocate.
Nietzsche was born in Roecken, Saxony in 1844 and became professor of Greek at Basel in Switzerland. Wikipedia - Full Text - Print Edition: ISBN 0199537070 "When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you." Squashed down to read in about 65 minutes Students of philosophy and literature as well as general readers will prize this rich sampling of Nietzsche's thought in an unabridged and inexpensive edition of one of the philosopher's most important works.Squashed Philosophers - Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil In this path-breaking work, Nietzsche's philosophical and literary powers are at their height: with devastating irony and flashing wit he gleefully dynamites centuries of accumulated conventional wisdom in metaphysics, morals, and psychology, clearing a path for such twentieth-century innovators as Thomas Mann, André Gide, Sigmund Freud, George Bernard Shaw, André Malraux, and Jean-Paul Sartre, all of whom openly acknowledged their debt to him. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a "slave morality" that fosters herd-like quiescence and stigmatizes the "highest human types." Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and creation.
After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil.
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