Nietzsche and Contemporary Ethics

Simon Robertson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-872221-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Nietzsche is one of the most subversive thinkers of the western philosophical canon. Yet until recently, his ethics has been sidelined within Anglophone moral philosophy. Simon Robertson offers the first sustained, single-authored critical assessment of his ethical thought and its significance, arguing that Nietzsche raises well-motivated challenges to morality's objectivity, authority, and value. Nietzsche and Contemporary Ethics develops insightful arguments about ethical objectivity, the pitfalls of internalising moral values, and the relation between good and bad. Robertson concludes by considering Nietzsche's broader import: how he challenges our usual views of what ethics itself is--and what it, and we, should be doing.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	744 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-19-872221-4 / 0198722214
ISBN-13	978-0-19-872221-2 / 9780198722212
Zustand	Neuware