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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9780192571793
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2020
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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