Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (1886), translated by Helen Zimmern (1907), narrated by Cori Samuel. An immersive reading edition of the complete, unabridged work — with word-by-word synchronized text on screen.

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📊 Reading level: Advanced (C2)

📖 About the book

Follow Nietzsche through aphorism and argument, past the prejudices of philosophers and the religious mood, into the natural history of morals and the question of what is noble — his hammer-blow against dogma, the herd, and the inherited categories of good and evil — with every word highlighted in sync with the narration.

Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is Friedrich Nietzsche's frontal attack on the moral and metaphysical assumptions of Western philosophy — nine essays and a torrent of aphorisms rejecting truth-as-virtue, herd morality, and the dogmatist's pretension to certainty. In their place he calls for a new kind of thinker, the free spirit, capable of looking past inherited categories of good and evil. One of the central works of nineteenth-century philosophy, and the prelude to his project of revaluing all values.

⏱ Chapters
0:00 Title
0:14 Preface
5:42 First Chapter, Prejudices Of Philosophers
1:03:08 Second Chapter, The Free Spirit
1:55:57 Third Chapter, The Religious Mood
2:38:14 Fourth Chapter, Apophthegms And Interludes
3:04:40 Fifth Chapter, The Natural History Of Morals
4:00:38 Sixth Chapter, We Scholars
4:50:59 Seventh Chapter, Our Virtues
5:54:54 Eighth Chapter, Peoples And Countries
6:55:28 Ninth Chapter, What Is Noble?
7:38:19 Ninth Chapter, Part 2
8:18:33 From Lofty Mountains
8:23:24 End

🎙 Credits

Text: Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4363) — public domain
Narration: Cori Samuel via LibriVox (https://librivox.org/beyond-good-and-...) — public domain
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