Beyond Good and Evil
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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
9 people recommended it in 7 threads, 2010–2024.
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Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche is required reading. if you like it, check out the viking collection of works by him and read his wikipedia page. You'll get a sense of what else you'd like to read from these two sources.
The first few chapters of BG&E ask the question: why we humans seek knowledge at all? What drives the will to knowledge. . .feelings? A question most scientists never even think to ask. . but that seems the most radical question of all (as in getting to the 'root' of it all).
Will completely transform the way you look at morality and its role in culture.
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