Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is a milestone work by Friedrich Nietzsche, which precedes the final, most intense period of his work, marked by summing up the philosophical results of previous human history and foreseeing the most important social and spiritual conflicts of the twentieth century. The idea of the superman, formulated in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, is developed in Nietzsche's new work in the form of refined analytical aphorisms, in which the author's sharp criticism of modernity is concentrated - its philosophy, science, art, politics and, most importantly, morality. On the pages of this prophetic work, not by chance having the subtitle "Prelude to the Philosophy of the Future", the German thinker predicted both the impending collapse of European spirituality, and the "revolt of the masses" with the subsequent accession of the "coming boor", and the leveling of the individual under the banner of universal equality of people, and the grandiose the struggle for world domination, and totalitarianism as a consequence of the democratization of Europe. The inevitability of these events and phenomena is dictated, according to Nietzsche, by the “morality of slaves” fraught with tyranny, which poisoned his time and over which he calls to rise the philosophers of the future, who, as he sees it, are capable of standing on the other side of good and evil.