In this week of our study of Beyond Good & Evil, we will pick up the pace and dedicate a single session to the entirety of Part 2, which is entitled “The Free Spirit”.
We will continue covering one chapters per week until we finished the book.
In Part One, we saw Nietzsche attack conventional philosophical ways of understanding the concepts like “truth” and “freedom of the will”.
Since Part Two is concerned with “The Free Spirit”, we should expect to learn a new way of understanding what “free” means — since it obviously can’t mean what it has traditionally meant.
The “free spirit” is an individual who anticipates and prepares the way for the new type of human being that Nietzsche calls the “philosopher of the future”.
When Nietzsche uses “We”, he is referring to “free spirits” like himself and his ideal readers.
These free spirits, however, are not themselves “philosophers of the future”.
Nietzsche takes himself and his ideal readers to be pre-cursors or “heralds” who are paving the way fo…
