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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Daybreak is probably the most underrated canonical work of the famous German philosopher. Overshadowed by Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Daybreak offers an overview of Nietzsche’s main ideas in a way you might not have heard about them before.

The first part covers the title of the book, Nietzsche’s overarching project, and his love for the empirical presocratic philosophers (Democritus, Heraclitus, Anaximenes, Thales of Miletus) and his distaste for the idealistic philosophy of Plato and his World of Forms.

In part two we dive deep into Nietzsche’s so-called assault on morality. Drawing heavily upon German materialism and “morality’s greatest prejudice”, Nietzsche will seek to destroy the moralities of old, moralities informed by false belief in a Hinterwelt. Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer, Christianity: all moral systems will have to meet their end. Nietzsche then challenges us to create a new morality. A morality not built on custom and tradition.