Day 27/30: Speed Read “Beyond Good and Evil” by Friedrich Nietzsche – 194 Pages in 126 Minutes
This is day #27 of the One Book, One Day challenge. We’re going to speed read Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Niet at 500 words per minute (WPM) using AccelaReader.com.
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About the Book:
Beyond Good and Evil is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. The work moves into the realm “beyond good and evil” in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.
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Book Stats:
Pages: 194
How Long To Read: 126 minutes (at 500 WPM)
Published: 1886
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Comments
KP
That was by far the most difficult book of the 30 days. Even reading it slower proved challenging. All of the writing in other languages: French, German, Latin . . . difficult vocabulary . . . new/provocative concepts. I can’t say that I particularly enjoyed it but I’m glad it’s over.