A Nietzschean metaethics : criticism of some contemporary themes in metaethics /: criticism of some contemporary themes in metaethics. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Emmanuel Rowe.
• Authors: Rowe, David Emmanuel
• Contents: Cover; A Nietzschean Metaethics; A Nietzschean Metaethics: Criticism of Some Contemporary Themes in Metaethics; Copyright page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1; Nietzsche as an Opponent to Metaethics; Nietzsche as Metaethicist; The Tensions; Resolving the Three Tensions; The Scope of This Work; Notes; Chapter 2; A Nietzschean Error Theory; Nietzsche as an Anti-Realist about Value; The Foundational Step of Moral Error Theories; Nietzsche's Earlier Moral Error Theory; Nietzsche's Radical Error Theory; Nietzsche's Challenge to Moral Error Theories; Notes; Chapter 3 Nietzsche's 'Positive' AlternativeChallenge 1: Locating the Right Sort of Value; Challenge 2: Providing a 'Positive' Alternative; Challenges Answered; Notes; Chapter 4; The Prescriptivity of Moral Values; An Answer to the Non-Cognitivist Argument; The Possibility of the Amoralist; Nietzsche's Argument against WMJI; A Preliminary Counterexample to WMJI; A Nietzschean Alternative to WMJI: CLUSTER; The Rationalist's Attempt to Ground WMJI; The Rationalist Response Reifies Intrinsic Values; The Resolution of T2; Notes; Chapter 5; Toward Nietzsche's 'Positive' Alternative Nietzsche's 'Positive' Alternative as an Elitist ViewArguments for Nietzsche as a 'Best Fit' With Virtue Ethics; Nietzsche Contra Virtue Ethics; Nietzsche's 'Creation' of New Values; A Precis of Nietzsche's 'Positive' Alternative; Notes; Chapter 6; Nietzsche's Three Norms of Power; Rational Constitutivism; Nietzschean Constitutivism; Power and Becoming; Three Different Senses of 'Will to Power'; Human Agency as Drive Motivated; A New Interpretation of A 2; Resolving the Tension in (T1); Notes; Chapter 7; Nietzsche as an N-Realist; The N-Realist View Leiter's Objection to Nietzsche as an N-RealistThe Solution; Remaining Issues; Nietzsche as N-Realist; Resolving T1 and T2; Notes; Chapter 8; Nietzsche's Reevaluation of All Values; How to Reevaluate Values; Nietzsche's Active Nihilism; The Project of Reevaluation; The Value of Agency; Every Instance of Acting is Identical to an Action; A Fourth Category of 'Willing' in Nietzsche; A New Concept of Agency in Nietzsche; (T1) and (T2) Solved; Notes; Chapter 9; Nietzsche as a Viable Opponent to Contemporary Themes in Metaethics Barriers to a Coherent Interpretation of Nietzsche vis-à-vis MetaethicsThe Resolution: Nietzsche as Active Nihilist; Some Specific Challenges Nietzsche as Opponent Makes; Tensions Solved; Nietzsche's New Conceptual Framework; Note; References; Index; About the Author
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 170/.42; Metaethics; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498579940; 1498579949
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2019).
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