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Nietzsche
and Morality
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Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhababu
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CONTENTS
NotesonContributors vii
Introduction 1
BrianLeiterandNeilSinhababu
PartI. NormativeEthicsandMoralPsychology 7
1. Nietzsche:Perfectionist 9
ThomasHurka
2. TheWilltoPowerandtheEthics
ofCreativity 32
BernardReginster
3. Nietzschean‘AnimalPsychology’versusKantianEthics 57
MathiasRisse
4. TheCaseforNietzscheanMoralPsychology 83
JoshuaKnobeandBrianLeiter
5. Ressentiment,Value,andSelf-Vindication:MakingSenseofNietzsche’s
SlaveRevolt 110
R.JayWallace
6. Guilt,BadConscience,andSelf-punishmentinNietzsche’sGenealogy 138
ChristopherJanaway
PartII. Metaethics 155
7. HonestIllusion:ValuingforNietzsche’sFreeSpirits 157
NadeemJ.Z.Hussain
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8. NietzscheandMoralObjectivity:TheDevelopmentofNietzsche’s
Metaethics 192
MaudemarieClarkandDavidDudrick
9. Affect,Value,andObjectivity 227
PeterPoellner
10. VengefulThinkingandMoralEpistemology 262
NeilSinhababu
11. Perspectives,Fictions,Errors,Play 281
SimonBlackburn
Bibliography 297
Index 301
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
SimonBlackburnisProfessorofPhilosophyatCambridgeUniversity.
Maudemarie Clark is George C. Carleton, Jr. Professor of Philosophy at Colgate
University.
DavidDudrickisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyatColgateUniversity.
Thomas Hurka is Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of
PhilosophyattheUniversityofToronto.
NadeemHussainisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyatStanfordUniversity.
ChristopherJanawayisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofSouthampton.
JoshuaKnobeisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofNorthCarolina
atChapelHill.
BrianLeiterholdstheHinesH.BakerandThelmaKelleyBakerChairinLawand
PhilosophyattheUniversityofTexasatAustin.
PeterPoellnerisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofWarwick.
BernardReginsterisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatBrownUniversity.
MathiasRisseisAssociateProfessorofPublicAffairsatHarvardUniversity.
Neil Sinhababu is a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow and a PhD candidate in
philosophyattheUniversityofTexasatAustin.
R.JayWallaceisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley.
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Introduction
Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhababu
Moral philosophy has long situated its problems, positions, and arguments with
respecttotheviewsoftheimportanthistorical figuresinthefield.Aristotle, Kant,
Hume,andMill,amongothers,haveloomedlargeinethicsoverthelastcentury,so
muchsothatthosecontemporariesinfluencedbythemoftenself-identifyasKantians
orHumeans,orasworkingout‘Aristotelian’or‘Millian’viewsasawayofdefending
answerstocontemporaryquestionsinmoralphilosophy.
Yetthehistoricalorientationofmoralphilosophershas,todate,largelyneglected
onefigurewhooughttocommandatleastequalattention,namely,Nietzsche.The
reasons for his neglect in Anglophone philosophy are, to be sure, understandable.
The general timidity and conservatism of English-speaking moral philosophy—its
inclinationtoelucidateanddefendmorality;itscommitment,moreoftenthannot,to
themoralstatusquoandtocommon-sense(certainutilitarianshonorablyexcepted!);
its lack of interest, until relatively recently, in psychological questions—made it
generallyinhospitableforacriticasradicalandasnaturalisticallyinclinedasNietzsche.
Untilrecently,moreover,fewEnglish-speakingphilosophers(PhilippaFootandthe
late Bernard Williams are notable exceptions) even tried to defend watered-down
versionsoftheradicalviewsofmoralityanditsvaluethatweassociatewithNietzsche.
Making matters worse, most scholarly writing on Nietzsche has not been done by
scholarsconversantwithseriousphilosophy,meaningthatphilosophicallyminded
valuetheorists wereunlikely tofindreading thesecondary literature onNietzsche
veryrewarding.
Thelasttwentyyearshavemarkedadramaticchangeinthisstateofaffairs.Increas-
ingly, talented moral philosophers—Simon Blackburn, Thomas Hurka, Nadeem
Hussain, Joshua Knobe, Mathias Risse, and R. Jay Wallace are representatives in
