Nietzsche's Values

Nietzsche's Values
Author: John Richardson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2020
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190098236

"The book gives a uniquely comprehensive philosophical analysis of Nietzsche's thinking. It shows how this thinking has its unifying focus on values--both the past and prevailing values that his psychologies and genealogies explain, and the new values that he himself creates and defends. It maps, in detail, the argumentative structure of his thinking as it bears on this central topic. It argues that his ultimate ambition is to show how we can incorporate the truth about values into our own valuing-and that he is therefore more deeply committed to truth than often supposed. The book's chapters examine twelve key concepts, each at the heart of a network of problems and ideas. A first group of concepts (value, life, drives, affects) treat the bodily valuing he attributes to our drives and affects; a second group (human, words, nihilism, freedom) treat the valuing we carry out in our deeply-flawed conception of ourselves as moral agents; the third group (the Yes, self, creating, Dionysus) project the values he offers as the lesson of his critiques--values centered on a universal affirmation expressed in the idea of eternal return. Each chapter organizes the rich complexity of Nietzsche's thought on its topic, and works to resolve contradictions, often by showing how he treats the concepts and problems as historical. The book synthesizes these detailed analyses into a systematic picture of his thought"--

Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values

Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values
Author: Edgar Evalt Sleinis
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1994
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780252063831

Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values is an assessment of Nietzsche's challenging plan to revalue all values, including knowledge, morality, religion, art, and the state. E. E. Sleinis analyzes the success of Nietzsche's enterprise as well as its inadequacies; among the positive contributions he singles out Nietzsche's theory of value, his conception of higher-order values, and his conception of the maximally affirmative attitude as creations of enduring importance.

Moral Psychology with Nietzsche

Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
Author: Brian Leiter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192571796

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. He 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.

Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power

Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power
Author: Tsarina Doyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108417280

Presents a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's controversial account of nature and value in relation to Kant and Hume.

Nietzsche's Dancers

Nietzsche's Dancers
Author: K. LaMothe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2006-02-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1403977267

This book investigates the role Nietzsche's dance images play in his project of "revaluing all values" alongside the religious rhetoric and subject matter evident in the work of Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, who found justification and guidance in Nietzsche's texts for developing dance as a medium of religious expression.

Nietzsche's System

Nietzsche's System
Author: John Richardson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 329
Release: 1996
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0195098463

This book challenges the popular recent view of Nietzsche as an anti-systematic, anti-traditional thinker, and argues that his work is in fact highly systematic, and therefore congruent with the main traditions of western philosophy.

Nietzsche's Moral Psychology

Nietzsche's Moral Psychology
Author: Mark Alfano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107074150

Examines Nietzsche's thinking on the virtues using a combination of close reading and digital analysis.

Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy

Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy
Author: Paul S. Loeb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 110842225X

Renowned scholars explore and discuss Nietzsche's desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy, and his methods of doing so.

Nietzsche on Morality

Nietzsche on Morality
Author: Brian Leiter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 131763585X

Both an introduction to Nietzsche’s moral philosophy, and a sustained commentary on his most famous work, On the Genealogy of Morality, this book has become the most widely used and debated secondary source on these topics over the past dozen years. Many of Nietzsche’s most famous ideas - the "slave revolt" in morals, the attack on free will, perspectivism, "will to power" and the "ascetic ideal" - are clearly analyzed and explained. The first edition established the centrality of naturalism to Nietzsche’s philosophy, generating a substantial scholarly literature to which Leiter responds in an important new Postscript. In addition, Leiter has revised and refreshed the book throughout, taking into account new scholarly literature, and revising or clarifying his treatment of such topics as the objectivity of value, epiphenomenalism and consciousness, and the possibility of "autonomous" agency.

Nietzsche's Ethics

Nietzsche's Ethics
Author: Thomas Stern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2020-01-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 110858750X

This Element explains Nietzsche's ethics in his late works, from 1886 onwards. The first three sections explain the basics of his ethical theory – its context and presuppositions, its scope and its central tension. The next three sections explore Nietzsche's goals in writing a history of Christian morality (On the Genealogy of Morality), the content of that history, and whether he achieves his goals. The last two sections take a broader look, respectively, at Nietzsche's wider philosophy in light of his ethics and at the prospects for a Nietzschean ethics after Nietzsche.