This volume comprises 10 essays on Nietzsche, one of the western canon's most controversial ethical thinkers. A team of experts clarify Nietzsche's own views, both critical and positive ethical and meta-ethical, and connect his philosophical concerns to contemporary debates in and about ethics, norm
Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity
β Scribed by Christopher Janaway, Simon Robertson, Peter Railton, Peter Poellner, Nadeem J. Z. Hussain, Alan Thomas, Bernard Reginster, R. Lanier Anderson, Richard Schacht
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 273
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity comprises ten original essays which critically engage with one of the western canon's most controversial ethical thinkers. Bringing together an internationally renowned line-up of Nietzsche specialists and mainstream moral philosophers, the volume provides a timely and distinctive contribution to our understanding of both Nietzsche and his significance for ethical thought more generally. As well as clarifying Nietzsche's own views, both critical and positive, ethical and meta-ethical, the articles connect Nietzsche's philosophical concerns to contemporary debates in and about ethics, normativity, and value. The volume's topics include: the nature and scope of Nietzsche's critique of morality; the character of the positive ideals Nietzsche advances in light of that critique; the meta-ethical commitments underpinning the substantive views he variously opposes and espouses; his conception of human psychology and its relation to normativity and value; and, more generally, the relation between Nietzsche's revaluative ambitions and the naturalistic worldview it has become common to attribute to him. With an editors' introduction providing a comprehensive and accessible background to these topics, including a state-of-the-art overview of the interpretative and philosophical controversies Nietzsche's normative and naturalistic endeavours raise, Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity stands at the cutting edge of current work in the field and is essential reading for anyone interested in the challenges Nietzsche poses for dominant models of moral philosophy.
β¦ Table of Contents
Preface by Christopher Janaway and Simon Robertson
Introduction: Nietzsche on Naturalism and Normativity by Christopher Janaway and Simon Robertson
1. Nietzscheβs Normative Theory? The Art and Skill of Living Well by Peter Railton
2. Aestheticist Ethics by Peter Poellner
3. The Scope ProblemβNietzsche, the Moral, Ethical, and Quasi-Aesthetic by Simon Robertson
4. Nietzsche and Non-cognitivism by Nadeem J. Z. Hussain
5. Nietzsche and Moral Fictionalism by Alan Thomas
6. Compassion and Selflessness by Bernard Reginster
7. Nietzsche on Morality, Drives, and Human Greatness by Christopher Janaway
8. What is a Nietzschean Self? by R. Lanier Anderson
9. Nietzscheβs Naturalism and Normativity by Richard Schacht
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