In Friedrich Nietzsche's creative legacy, Morning Star is the second of three works that distinguish the middle ("positivist") period of the German thinker's philosophizing. Occupying a position between "Human, too human" and "Fun Science", it marks the beginning of a future project "revaluation of all values." The text consists of five parts, which contain 575 aphorisms of various lengths and themes. Nietzsche defines morality as the usual way of acting and evaluating. The issues of prejudice, free thought, problems of truth and knowledge were raised. Preparatory work has been carried out on the further study of morality and religion, which will be developed in the polemical treatise "On the Genealogy of Morality" and critical intelligence "Antichrist". In The Morning Star, Nietzsche's philosophy is seen as an experimental vision of the existence and testing of various perspectives on human self-realization. The publication is accompanied by a historical and philosophical preface and research and terminological commentary. The work was translated into Ukrainian for the first time.
