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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in Rocken, Germany. He studied classical philology at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig. In 1869 Nietzsche was appointed to the position of Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Declining health led Nietzsche to resign his post a decade later.

Nietzsche's famous works include the Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit Music, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of Wagner, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Human, All Too Human. The Will to Power, which was extracted from the philosopher's notebooks, was published posthumously.

In 1889, Nietzsche began to exhibit signs of a serious mental illness and was cared for by his mother and sister. Friedrich Nietzsche died in 1900.

Nietzsche approaches Beyond Good and Evil from the point of view of a seasoned scholar who...