Translator's Preface
Author's Preface

Chapter 1: On the Prejudices of Philosophers
Chapter 2: The Spirit of Freedom
Chapter 3 Religious Matters
Chapter 4: Proverbs and Interludes
Chapter 5: The Museum of Morality
Chapter 6 Our Scholars
Chapter 7 Our Virtues
Chapter 8: Nation and Homeland
Chapter 9: What is Nobility?

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Translator's Note

Criticism of all types of dualistic thinking that have defined Western traditional culture
A revolutionary book that seeks to overcome Europe's sick culture and build a healthy one.

Finally, Nietzsche argues that good requires evil, contrary to the traditional concept of good and evil as opposing each other.
In the traditional concept of good and evil, pain and suffering are considered evils that must be eliminated, and eliminating pain and suffering is considered good.
In contrast, Nietzsche believes that pain and suffering can be an opportunity to strengthen and elevate ourselves.
Therefore, Nietzsche does not view those who are overflowing with compassion for other humans and save them from pain and suffering as good people, but rather as weak-minded people.
These people, when they see others suffering, think about how difficult it would be for them to suffer the same way.
In this sense, compassion for those who suffer is actually self-pity.
It is feeling compassion for the pain that others are going through, or for oneself who has gone through it in the past or will go through it in the future.
Unlike the weak who easily feel pain and feel compassion for themselves and others, the strong do not feel pain easily.
Strong people, when they see the suffering of others, believe that the suffering will not be as great as their own and that they can overcome it on their own.
This is precisely why it is difficult for the strong to feel compassion for others.
Nietzsche believes that the spread of the morality of sympathy in Europe is ultimately due to people becoming weak.
A painful process of self-overcoming is necessary for humans to strengthen and elevate themselves.
Great artistic creation is not simply the product of unbridled imagination, but is made possible by obeying thousands of laws that cannot be conceptually formalized, that is, by imposing a powerful tyranny on oneself.
Because Nietzsche sees suffering as necessary for human beings to be elevated and strengthened, he criticizes all ideas that seek to create a world without suffering and only with pleasure, such as a paradise like heaven, a society that realizes the 'happiness of the greatest number', or a future utopia like communism.
That doesn't mean Nietzsche was a cold-blooded person who thought there was no need to help others.
Nietzsche simply demands that we help others grow into strong individuals who can readily accept even pain and suffering as opportunities for self-strengthening.
Beyond Good and Evil is a revolutionary book that seeks to overcome Europe's sick culture and build a healthy one by criticizing all forms of dualistic thinking that have defined Western traditional culture.
Because of its revolutionary nature and sharp, political logic, Beyond Good and Evil has had a lasting and profound influence not only on philosophy and the humanities, but also on the social sciences, literature, and the arts.
As a result, this book holds a classic status among Nietzsche's works, no less than Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
The translator, Park Chan-guk, a professor of philosophy at Seoul National University, has already published Nietzsche's 『The Birth of Tragedy』, 『Twilight of the Idols』, and 『The Antichrist』 with detailed commentary in the form of notes for ambiguous parts of Nietzsche's writings or parts that require a general understanding of Nietzsche's thought, and added annotations.
These translations have received favorable reviews from many readers.