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Dec 21, 2024
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LAS 441 - Beyond Good and Evil 3 Credit Hours
For Nietzsche, concepts of good and evil are not absolute: “What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good-the atavism of an older ideal.” We will use Nietzsche’s dramatic revaluation of values in The Genealogy of Morality and (selections from) Beyond Good and Evil to enable an investigation of Aristotle’s ethical system in his Nichomachean Ethics. We will read texts (for example, Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Huysman’s Against the Grain, Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil) and view films (such as Fellini’s La Dolce Vita) that will enrich our exploration of matters related to good and evil.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing
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