Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX FROM BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL TO THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS While composing the several parts of Zarathustra, Nietzsche had once more taken up the ideas that had occupied him in Dawn of Day and The Joyful Wisdom. Indirectly, of course, these studies bore an intimate relation to Zarathustra, for, as my brother so justly observes, "We philosophers have no right to make each of our works stand by itself, either in its errors or in its truths. As inevitably as the fruit of a tree, our ideas and values, our ayes and noes and ifs and whethers grow out of us in close kinship, as products of one will, one health, one soil and one sun." His memoranda of the years 1883-1885 apparently contain plans for various books. For one, called Morality for Moralists and The Innocence of Becoming a Signpost towards the Emancipation from Morality, the notes are particularly copious. In the summer of 1884, however, preparations for his chief philosophical work, afterwards called The Will to Power, took pride of place. As we have already seen, this prose masterpiece, the counterpart of his poetical masterpiece Zarathustra, was to be worked at for six years. His notes contain the following fundamental views to be expounded in the book: "First Principle. All the valuations that have obtained hitherto proceed from a false, spurious science; they are no longer binding, even if they have become a matter of sentiment, of instinct, of conscience. "Second Principle. Instead of faith, which is no longer possible for us, we set above us a strong will, which establishes a preliminary series of values, as a tentative axiom, so that we may see how far we can get thereby, like sailors on an unknown sea. As a matter of fact, all that 'faith' was nothing more than this, but...
