Penguin Group Beyond Good And Evil

This is mass market paperback and the fonts are too small and difficult to read even thought I do not have sight problems

Book it self is good, but physical book, is randomly capitalized and has weird formating

It is a lie. This is a printout not a book. I am returning it.

A few more pages would have made total sense to avoid this unfriendly result.

An annotated version would be a bonus, but this version is just the pure text which also is pretty good.

The pages, and the lamination feels very cheap, but all of that wouldn't of mattered if they would have at least formatted the pages.Reading this "book" is like reading an English assignment written by an elementary school student who has yet to learn how to format their paper.

Consider the following extracts : “The noble type of man regards HIMSELF as a determiner of values; he does not require to be approved of; he passes the judgment: What is injurious to me is injurious in itself; he knows that it is he himself only who confers honour on things; he is a CREATOR OF VALUES. [ie. lives life by his own rules]“Without the PATHOS OF DISTANCE, such as grows out of the incarnated difference of classes, out of the constant out-looking and down-looking of the ruling caste on subordinates and instruments, and out of their equally constant practice of obeying and commanding, of keeping down and keeping at a distance that other more mysterious pathos could never have arisen, the longing for an ever new widening of distance within the soul itself, the formation of ever higher, rarer, further, more extended, more comprehensive states, in short, just the elevation of the type man, the continued self-surmounting of man, to use a moral formula in a supermoral sense.‘Noble’ to a 21st century ear sounds like superiority. The 'pathos of distance' is like you have with a pet dog to which you show approval or disapproval. Is Nietzsche saying that people need to be bred like dogs to serve the needs of their human masters???Absolutely YES - because that is how we serve ourselves !!!This is Nietzsches discovery. The sovereign individual, lord and master over itself. Over its caprices, impulses, lusts, fears. What kind of ruler are you of yourself and your own emotions? This shows itself in how you treat others under your command or those who are part of you - your children, your staff, your students, your soldiers etc etc All a direct reflection of your own personal philosophy which you create - it is not given to you.So it has always been between aristocrats and their subjects. And the point is that so it is also between your commanding instincts and your mixed inner feelings which will often have to be dragged kicking and screaming to submit to your will if you are to accomplish anything of value. It is a neat idea in which the personal is externalised to become the political and the moral. Brilliant.We all can be masters of our base instincts or we can be servants of them. It is up to us - but societies that discriminate in favour of the noble instincts over the base will clearly do much better than others - all pretty uncontroversial really - the chapter on being noble is a really good place to start with this book.

This is certainly an interesting book but the formatting of the book is terrible making it difficult to read. No paragraphs or adequate spacing just chunks of txt.millennium publication needs to improve!