
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · Edaf · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471666147
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Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil' is a profound exploration of ethics and the human condition. Nietzsche challenges traditional ethical conceptions, especially those of Christianity, and proposes a transmutation of Western values. This book invites a dangerous adventure in the pursuit of truth and the overcoming of limitations imposed by conventional morality. With a prologue and chronology by Dolores Castrillo Mirat, this edition from Editorial Edaf offers a valuable introduction to the thought of one of history's most influential philosophers.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.