Nietzschean Metaethics Criticism of Some Contemporary Themes in Metaethics
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Biographical note
David Emmanuel Rowe is sessional lecturer and tutor at Deakin and Monash universities.Rowe's rich and comprehensive discussions of Nietzschean metaethics will be valuable for anyone interested in Nietzsche's normative thought. Rowe argues that we should read Nietzsche as an error theorist about moral values who nonetheless offers a positive normative standard, namely power; and this positive standard is supported by a constitutivist argument. Along the way, Rowe offers intriguing critiques of some of the most prominent recent discussions of Nietzsche's metaethics; contends that we can develop Nietzschean arguments against motivational judgment internalism by considering the opacity of human action; and shows how Nietzsche's error theory is compatible with the creation of new evaluative perspectives.
- Paul Katsafanas, Boston University,
Nietzsche says one should philosophise with a hammer. In this book, David Rowe does just that, dismantling some central platforms of contemporary meta-ethics, especially its rationalism, but also constructing his own Nietzschean-inspired view that avoids those errors.
- Jack Reynolds, Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Melbourne,
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
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