Read the book: Beyond Good & Evi l- Friedrich Nietzsche(1885)

Rating: 10/10 (14 August 2008)

Its all there, the heroes, the artificiality of Belief, the fear of loss of an absolute morality by the masses, a solution to the problem of Evil in our Nietzschean 21st century. Old Nietzsche really hated Chrisianity, totally disliked the German bourgeoisie, and considered other philosophies just plain wrong. The hard part of dealing with translations of his books into English is that so many of the words have become clichés: 'ubermensch' did not mean people who were physically strong, it actually meant what we would call self-motivated or self-realized. He wasn't anti-semitic and considered German anti-semitism an example of bourgeois delusion in German culture. He wrote a number of books with odd titles, like 'The Gay Science' where the phrase God is dead appears (a better translation is 'The Happy Science', another example of bad translation).