Comparing Nietzsche's Beyond Good And Evil

In his book, Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche identifies common prejudices of past and present philosophers. Nietzsche begins with a critique of “Faith in opposite values”, an assumption that the world is divided into opposites. The foundational sets of opposites include truth versus falsehood, and conscious thinking versus instincts. However, Nietzsche finds that these are little more than ago-old accepted truths, which are in fact prejudices (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886, 6). Nietzsche, also points to another prejudice: the distinction between “real and apparent world” (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886, 11). He argues that there is not anything more real than appearance. Thus, the main driver of philosophers is, according to Nietzsche, the “instinct that drives them [anti-realists] from modern reality” (Nietzsche, Beyond Good
Philosophers, however should “not point to this falsification of the truth because no philosopher has yet been confirmed right” and this “truth” can be interpreted as their “prejudice” (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886, 27). Later in the Chapter Nietzsche gives a overview of stages of morality in human history: the pre-moral period, in which only the consequences of action matters, the moral where the focus is on the origin rather than the consequences of action. Eventually, Extra-moral it the last stage and looks at the intention of an individual’s action. If individuals recognize these drivers that shape human action, they can overcome the restrictive characters of morality (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886, 32,33). At the end of the chapter The Free Spirit, Nietzsche predicts that free spirit is possible but he also describes the challenges (human instincts and intentions) to his vision of free spirit among a new generation of philosophers (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886,