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A Nietzschean Metaethics: Criticism of Some Contemporary Themes in Metaethics

Autor David Emmanuel Rowe
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 oct 2019
This book develops a novel interpretation of the late-nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as holding a distinct and original metaethical position (a theory about our practice of ethics). David Emannuel Rowe characterizes it as a human-centered metaethics. A central achievement of A Nietzschean Metaethics is to bring Nietzsche into a conversation with the analytic metaethical tradition. To do so, Rowe interprets Nietzsche's use of such concepts as the notorious "will to power"; his ideal agent, the superman or Übermensch; nihilism; the eternal recurrence; Perspectivism; and Being and Becoming. The result is a view of Nietzsche as a radical moral error theorist, which is to say he defends the view that all statements that appeal to some value for their truth are false. This theory is radical because Nietzsche argues that insofar as language requires certain concepts for its truth it is in error, in virtue of an appeal to some value. Rowe also offers a view where the increase in one's power is a standard by which one can make sense of Nietzsche's so-called re-evaluation of all values. By means of this resolution, Nietzsche criticizes some contemporary themes in metaethics, such as particular views about moral motivation, reasons, moral error theory, and agency.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498579933
ISBN-10: 1498579930
Pagini: 222
Ilustrații: 1 tables;
Dimensiuni: 161 x 228 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Nietzsche as an Opponent to Meta-ethics

Chapter 2: A Nietzschean Error Theory

Chapter 3: Nietzsche's 'Positive' Alternative

Chapter 4: The Prescriptivity of Moral Values

Chapter 5: Towards Nietzsche's 'Positive' Alternative

Chapter 6: Nietzsche's Three Norms of Power

Chapter 7: Nietzsche as an N-Realist

Chapter 8: Nietzsche's Re-evaluation of all Values

Chapter 9: Nietzsche as a Viable Opponent to Contemporary Themes in Meta-ethics

References

About the Author

Recenzii

Rowe's rich and comprehensive discussions of Nietzschean metaethics will be valuable for anyone interested in Nietzsche's normative thought. Rowe argues that we should read Nietzsche as an error theorist about moral values who nonetheless offers a positive normative standard, namely power; and this positive standard is supported by a constitutivist argument. Along the way, Rowe offers intriguing critiques of some of the most prominent recent discussions of Nietzsche's metaethics; contends that we can develop Nietzschean arguments against motivational judgment internalism by considering the opacity of human action; and shows how Nietzsche's error theory is compatible with the creation of new evaluative perspectives.
Nietzsche says one should philosophise with a hammer. In this book, David Rowe does just that, dismantling some central platforms of contemporary meta-ethics, especially its rationalism, but also constructing his own Nietzschean-inspired view that avoids those errors.