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Nietzsche and contemporary ethics / Simon Robertson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Simon, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Ethics, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 402 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Nietzsche's critical target : morality
- Error theory and naturalism
- Error theory and normative authority
- Morality's disvalue : feature-specific objections Morality's disvalue : morality vs. excellence
- Moral psychology : will to power
- A sentimentalist moral psychology
- Perfectionism
- Value and a good life
- Normativity
- Metaethical loose ends.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-103352-9
- 0-19-178906-2
- 0-19-103351-0
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