First published in 1886 'Beyond Good and Evil' is a collection of essays and aphorisms by Friedrich Nietzsche a German philosopher cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a deep impact on modern intellectual history. It presents a harsh critique of traditional morality and attacks previous philosophers for their blind acceptance of Christian ideals of virtue. Nietzsche argues that no human values are absolute and that all value distinctions are hypocritical. As a recourse to what