Simon Robertson

Nietzsche and Contemporary Ethics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780198722212
• ISBN-10: 0198722214
• Artikelnr.: 58698363

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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