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Moral Psychology with Nietzsche

Leiter Brian
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199696505
Published
2019
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
468 gr
Height
236 mm
Width
164 mm
Thickness
17 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
212

Author
Leiter Brian

Biographical note

Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values at the University of Chicago, where he teaches and writes about moral, political, and legal philosophy in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions. His many publications include Nietzsche on Morality (2002; 2015), which has been called "the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the last twenty years" (Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2010).

Moral Psychology with Nietzsche

Leiter Brian
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Leiter Brian
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Brian Leiter's second book on Nietzsche brings together ideas and arguments that have already had a significant influence on the field through their earlier formulations in his articles from the past two decades. It is thus indispensable reading for anyone interested in Leiter's evolving project of showing that Nietzsche has the correct naturalistic approach to issues in moral philosophy and moral psychology. As usual with Leiter's scholarship, this monograph is extremely clear, densely argued, and philosophically sophisticated.

Paul Loeb, Journal of the History of Philosophy

Leiter is one of the most important and influential Nietzsche scholars in the Anglosphere today, so this volume is a must-read for Nietzsche scholars...[I]t should also interest a more general philosophical audience...Anyone coming from contemporary analytic philosophy will appreciate the forthright, unpretentious style and argumentative rigor, as well as the broad aim not to simply re-mouth Nietzsche's phrases but rather to articulate the Nietzschean perspective.

Alexander Prescott-Couch, European Journal of Philosophy

engagingly written and philosophically adroit...[a] philosophically rewarding book

Andrew Huddleston, Journal of Nietzsche Studies

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readers looking for a reading of Nietzsche that is rich in philosophical argument and places Nietzsche's moral psychology in conversation with contemporary Anglo-American philosophy will not be disappointed. I personally found Leiter's book to be a stimulating read that encourages us to resist moralizing interpretations of Nietzsche and opens up new avenues for situating Nietzsche in contemporary debates.

Matthew Meyer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how our lives unfold. Leiter presents a new interpretation of main themes of Nietzsche's moral psychology, including his anti-realism about value (including epistemic value), his account of moral judgment and its relationship to the emotions, his conception of the will and agency, his scepticism about free will and moral responsibility, his epiphenomenalism about certain kinds of conscious mental states, and his views about the heritability of psychological traits. In combining exegesis with argument, Leiter engages the views of philosophers like Harry Frankfurt, T. M. Scanlon, and Gary Watson, and psychologists including Daniel Wegner, Benjamin Libet, and Stanley Milgram. Nietzsche emerges not simply as a museum piece from the history of ideas, but as a philosopher and psychologist who exceeds David Hume for insight into human nature and the human mind, repeatedly anticipates later developments in empirical psychology, and continues to offer sophisticated and unsettling challenges to much conventional wisdom in both philosophy and psychology.
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Brian Leiter draws on empirical psychology to defend a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts play almost no significant role in our actions. Nietzsche emerges as not just a great philosopher but a prescient psychologist.
Read more
Introduction: Nietzsche's Naturalistic Moral Psychology Part I: Metaphysics and Epistemology of Value 1: Nietzsche's Anti-Realism about Value: the Explanatory Arguments 2: Nietzsche's Metaethics: Against the Privilege Readings 3: Moralities are a Sign-Language of the Affects 4: Anti-Realism, Value, Perspectivism Part II: Freedom, Agency, and the Will 5: Nietzsche's Theory of Agency: The Will and Freedom of the Will 6: A Positive View of Freedom? 7: The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology (with Joshua Knobe)
Read more
Interpretation of Nietzsche's moral psychology by a leading Nietzsche scholar Extensive engagement with philosophical arguments in metaethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind Extensive engagement with contemporary empirical psychology on these topics Brings Nietzsche into dialogue with contemporary philosophers and the best psychological research of recent decades Provides a defense of the correctness of many of Nietzsche's views that is valuable to scholars and researchers alike
Read more
Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values at the University of Chicago, where he teaches and writes about moral, political, and legal philosophy in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions. His many publications include Nietzsche on Morality (2002; 2015), which has been called "the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the last twenty years" (Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2010).
Read more
Interpretation of Nietzsche's moral psychology by a leading Nietzsche scholar Extensive engagement with philosophical arguments in metaethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind Extensive engagement with contemporary empirical psychology on these topics Brings Nietzsche into dialogue with contemporary philosophers and the best psychological research of recent decades Provides a defense of the correctness of many of Nietzsche's views that is valuable to scholars and researchers alike
Read more

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Brian Leiter's second book on Nietzsche brings together ideas and arguments that have already had a significant influence on the field through their earlier formulations in his articles from the past two decades. It is thus indispensable reading for anyone interested in Leiter's evolving project of showing that Nietzsche has the correct naturalistic approach to issues in moral philosophy and moral psychology. As usual with Leiter's scholarship, this monograph is extremely clear, densely argued, and philosophically sophisticated.

Paul Loeb, Journal of the History of Philosophy

Leiter is one of the most important and influential Nietzsche scholars in the Anglosphere today, so this volume is a must-read for Nietzsche scholars...[I]t should also interest a more general philosophical audience...Anyone coming from contemporary analytic philosophy will appreciate the forthright, unpretentious style and argumentative rigor, as well as the broad aim not to simply re-mouth Nietzsche's phrases but rather to articulate the Nietzschean perspective.

Alexander Prescott-Couch, European Journal of Philosophy

engagingly written and philosophically adroit...[a] philosophically rewarding book

Andrew Huddleston, Journal of Nietzsche Studies

See all

readers looking for a reading of Nietzsche that is rich in philosophical argument and places Nietzsche's moral psychology in conversation with contemporary Anglo-American philosophy will not be disappointed. I personally found Leiter's book to be a stimulating read that encourages us to resist moralizing interpretations of Nietzsche and opens up new avenues for situating Nietzsche in contemporary debates.

Matthew Meyer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how our lives unfold. Leiter presents a new interpretation of main themes of Nietzsche's moral psychology, including his anti-realism about value (including epistemic value), his account of moral judgment and its relationship to the emotions, his conception of the will and agency, his scepticism about free will and moral responsibility, his epiphenomenalism about certain kinds of conscious mental states, and his views about the heritability of psychological traits. In combining exegesis with argument, Leiter engages the views of philosophers like Harry Frankfurt, T. M. Scanlon, and Gary Watson, and psychologists including Daniel Wegner, Benjamin Libet, and Stanley Milgram. Nietzsche emerges not simply as a museum piece from the history of ideas, but as a philosopher and psychologist who exceeds David Hume for insight into human nature and the human mind, repeatedly anticipates later developments in empirical psychology, and continues to offer sophisticated and unsettling challenges to much conventional wisdom in both philosophy and psychology.
Read more
Brian Leiter draws on empirical psychology to defend a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts play almost no significant role in our actions. Nietzsche emerges as not just a great philosopher but a prescient psychologist.
Read more
Introduction: Nietzsche's Naturalistic Moral Psychology Part I: Metaphysics and Epistemology of Value 1: Nietzsche's Anti-Realism about Value: the Explanatory Arguments 2: Nietzsche's Metaethics: Against the Privilege Readings 3: Moralities are a Sign-Language of the Affects 4: Anti-Realism, Value, Perspectivism Part II: Freedom, Agency, and the Will 5: Nietzsche's Theory of Agency: The Will and Freedom of the Will 6: A Positive View of Freedom? 7: The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology (with Joshua Knobe)
Read more
Interpretation of Nietzsche's moral psychology by a leading Nietzsche scholar Extensive engagement with philosophical arguments in metaethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind Extensive engagement with contemporary empirical psychology on these topics Brings Nietzsche into dialogue with contemporary philosophers and the best psychological research of recent decades Provides a defense of the correctness of many of Nietzsche's views that is valuable to scholars and researchers alike
Read more
Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values at the University of Chicago, where he teaches and writes about moral, political, and legal philosophy in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions. His many publications include Nietzsche on Morality (2002; 2015), which has been called "the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the last twenty years" (Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2010).
Read more
Interpretation of Nietzsche's moral psychology by a leading Nietzsche scholar Extensive engagement with philosophical arguments in metaethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind Extensive engagement with contemporary empirical psychology on these topics Brings Nietzsche into dialogue with contemporary philosophers and the best psychological research of recent decades Provides a defense of the correctness of many of Nietzsche's views that is valuable to scholars and researchers alike
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9780199696505
Published
2019
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
468 gr
Height
236 mm
Width
164 mm
Thickness
17 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
212

Author
Leiter Brian

Biographical note

Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values at the University of Chicago, where he teaches and writes about moral, political, and legal philosophy in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions. His many publications include Nietzsche on Morality (2002; 2015), which has been called "the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the last twenty years" (Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2010).

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