Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil: A Morality of Immoralism

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) presents a radical and enigmatic approach to existentialism by over emphasizing the attributes of subjectivity of the individual over the group, community and God, especially the Christian God. This essays takes a critical appraisal of the major presuppositions of Nietzsche, especially as contained in his work Beyond Good and Evil (1886) which is a major amalgam of Nietzsche’s works on existentialism.

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