Beyond Good and Evil
摘要
This chapter deepens Nietzsche’s critique of morality, exploring the tragic implications of moving “beyond good and evil.” Traditional morality, bound by dualisms of light and dark, good and evil, truth and falsehood, is revealed as an illusion masking the transience and ambiguity of life. Nietzsche instead calls for an ethics grounded in interpretation, perspectivism, and tragic affirmation. The chapter connects this ethical vision to literature, notably Dostoevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor,” which dramatizes the dangers of replacing freedom with authoritarian certainty. Law is likewise implicated: judgment cannot escape tragic ambivalence, since justice requires practical wisdom rather than rigid application of rules. Forgiveness, resistance, and openness emerge as essential responses to life’s tragic complexity. The chapter concludes by suggesting that philosophy itself risks becoming superstition if it denies tragedy, whereas an authentically tragic philosophy grounds ethics in responsibility, freedom, and the embrace of ambiguity beyond metaphysical consolation.