Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Preface

Chapter 1 On the Prejudices of Philosophers

Chapter 2 The Free Spirit

Chapter 3 What is Religious

Chapter 4 Apophthegms and Interludes

Chapter 5 The Natural History of Morals

Chapter 6 We Scholars

Chapter 7 Our Virtues

Chapter 8 Peoples and Fatherlands

Chapter 9 What is Noble?

Chapter 10 Aftersong - 'From the Heights'

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Published: 1886 Categorie(s): Non-Fiction, Human Science, Philosophy

Sils Maria Upper Engadine, JUNE, 1885.

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Cujus est natura sensus assoupire.

But such replies belong to the realm of comedy, and it is high time to replace the Kantian question, "How are synthetic judgments a PRIORI possible?" by another question, "Why is belief in such judgments necessary?"—in effect, it is high time that we should understand that such judgments must be believed to be true, for the sake of the preservation of creatures like ourselves; though they still might naturally be false judgments! Or, more plainly spoken, and roughly and readily—synthetic judgments a priori should not "be possible" at all; we have no right to them; in our mouths they are nothing but false judgments. Only, of course, the belief in their truth is necessary, as plausible belief and ocular evidence belonging to the perspective view of life. And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"—I hope you understand its right to inverted commas (goosefeet)?—has exercised throughout the whole of Europe, there is no doubt that a certain VIRTUS DORMITIVA had a share in it; thanks to German philosophy, it was a delight to the noble idlers, the virtuous, the mystics, the artiste, the three-fourths Christians, and the political obscurantists of all nations, to find an antidote to the still overwhelming sensualism which overflowed from the last century into this, in short—"sensus assoupire." …

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