Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not that your morality is wrong. That there was never anything there to be wrong about.
- Catch rate
- 16 / 255
- Base research
- 252
- Stat total
- 402
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Cited for this book
He is the most honest opponent in this game and the hardest to be near. He saw further than the comfortable atheism of his century into what its premises actually cost, said so, and despised the men who would not follow him. The game does not answer him with a slogan, and the move that does answer him is not a proof of God: it is the observation that the claim has to stand somewhere, and there is nowhere left for it to stand.
Moves learned
This book learns nothing new by levelling — everything it knows, it knew from the start or brought with it through development.
What answers it
The specific move or chapter of Scripture that cuts through this argument, and why.
Each of these five reached its result by first assuming something it never argued for — that religion climbs from crude to refined, or that a miracle cannot happen, or that a document reporting one must be late. Dispute the results and there are ten thousand of them. Ask instead what had to be true before the first page was opened, and there is one.