There is no doubt that many have tackled the issue of human nature. Inquiring minds propose to themselves, and to others, questions such as: How did humanity begin? What is unique about humans? What is constant throughout humanity? What kinds of discrepancies are there within the human race? What ultimately shapes how humans think and behave? One of the more intriguing philosophers to tackle these questions, Friedrich Nietzsche, offered a glimpse of his view of human nature through Beyond Good and Evil, a collection of 296 aphorisms designed to provocatively convey his view of humanity, especially during its execution in nineteenth-century Europe. While he thoroughly and often vehemently expands upon categories in David Barash’s compilation Ideas of Human Nature, it is perhaps most intriguing to see both the similarities and complicated oppositions to many of the thinkers mentioned in Barash’s book.