![]() ![]() Friedrich NietzscheĬomposed of 296 numbered arguments, organized into nine thematic parts, and concluding with an epode, or aftersong, titled “From High Mountains,” this unyawning awakening of a book builds on the ideas Nietzsche had explored three years earlier from a more poetic angle in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, now examined with a pointed critical sensibility. ![]() It is also an incomplete sentiment, for the dichotomy is not between good and evil but within the totality of being - something James Baldwin captured two decades and myriad miniature wars later in his staggering observation that “it has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within.”Ī century before Baldwin, Friedrich Nietzsche (October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900) explored the complexity and nuance of this disquieting fundament of human nature in his 1886 book Beyond Good and Evil ( free ebook | public library). It is a sentiment both lucid and noble, springing from one of humanity’s most humanistic minds. ![]() “It isn’t that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn’t die.” “All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up,” John Steinbeck wrote to his best friend on New Year’s Day 1941, as the world was coming undone by its deadliest war. ![]()
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