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This book offers a sustained critical assessment of Nietzsche's ethical thought and its significance for contemporary moral philosophy. Robertson develops an original, but critical, reading of Nietzsche's ethics, and uses it to address a range of longstanding issues to do with morality, moral psychology, value, and the good life.
Sommario
- Preface
- 1.: Introduction
- 2.: Nietzsche's Critical Target: Morality
- 3.: Error Theory and Naturalism
- 4.: Error Theory and Normative Authority
- 5.: Morality's Disvalue: Feature-Specific Objections
- 6.: Morality's Disvalue: Morality vs. Excellence
- 7.: Moral Psychology: Will to Power
- 8.: A Sentimentalist Moral Psychology
- 9.: Perfectionism
- 10.: Value and a Good Life
- 11.: Normativity
- 12.: Metaethical Loose Ends
- 13.: Conclusions
- Appendices
- References
Info autore
Simon Robertson completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews in 2005. He has worked at several universities in the UK, most recently Cardiff University (2012-18). His main research interests are in ethics, normativity, risk, and Nietzsche. He has published in each of these fields, in journals and edited collections, and is the editor of Spheres of Reasons (Oxford 2009) and coeditor with Christopher Janaway of Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity (Oxford 2012). He is now an independent scholar.
Riassunto
This book offers a sustained critical assessment of Nietzsche's ethical thought and its significance for contemporary moral philosophy. Robertson develops an original, but critical, reading of Nietzsche's ethics, and uses it to address a range of longstanding issues to do with morality, moral psychology, value, and the good life.
