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). It is, what might be called, 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, David Emmanuel 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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This book provides an interpretation of the late nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as holding a distinct and original metaethical position, which is to say a theory about our practice of ethics. Rowe uses this interpretation to provide some interesting and thought-provoking criticisms of themes in contemporary metaethics.
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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
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ISBN
9781498579933
Publisert
2019-10-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books
Vekt
513 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
216

Biographical note

David Emmanuel Rowe is sessional lecturer/tutor at Deakin and Monash universities.