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Nietzsche and Morality This page intentionally left blank Nietzsche and Morality edited by Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhababu CLARENDON PRESS · OXFORD 1 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork ©theseveralcontributors2007 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2007 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbyLaserwordsPrivateLimited,Chennai,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN978–0–19–928593–8 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS NotesonContributors vii Introduction 1 BrianLeiterandNeilSinhababu PartI. NormativeEthicsandMoralPsychology 7 1. Nietzsche:Perfectionist 9 ThomasHurka 2. TheWilltoPowerandtheEthics ofCreativity 32 BernardReginster 3. Nietzschean‘AnimalPsychology’versusKantianEthics 57 MathiasRisse 4. TheCaseforNietzscheanMoralPsychology 83 JoshuaKnobeandBrianLeiter 5. Ressentiment,Value,andSelf-Vindication:MakingSenseofNietzsche’s SlaveRevolt 110 R.JayWallace 6. Guilt,BadConscience,andSelf-punishmentinNietzsche’sGenealogy 138 ChristopherJanaway PartII. Metaethics 155 7. HonestIllusion:ValuingforNietzsche’sFreeSpirits 157 NadeemJ.Z.Hussain vi / Contents 8. NietzscheandMoralObjectivity:TheDevelopmentofNietzsche’s Metaethics 192 MaudemarieClarkandDavidDudrick 9. Affect,Value,andObjectivity 227 PeterPoellner 10. VengefulThinkingandMoralEpistemology 262 NeilSinhababu 11. Perspectives,Fictions,Errors,Play 281 SimonBlackburn Bibliography 297 Index 301 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS SimonBlackburnisProfessorofPhilosophyatCambridgeUniversity. Maudemarie Clark is George C. Carleton, Jr. Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. DavidDudrickisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyatColgateUniversity. Thomas Hurka is Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of PhilosophyattheUniversityofToronto. NadeemHussainisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyatStanfordUniversity. ChristopherJanawayisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofSouthampton. JoshuaKnobeisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofNorthCarolina atChapelHill. BrianLeiterholdstheHinesH.BakerandThelmaKelleyBakerChairinLawand PhilosophyattheUniversityofTexasatAustin. PeterPoellnerisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofWarwick. BernardReginsterisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatBrownUniversity. MathiasRisseisAssociateProfessorofPublicAffairsatHarvardUniversity. Neil Sinhababu is a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow and a PhD candidate in philosophyattheUniversityofTexasatAustin. R.JayWallaceisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley. This page intentionally left blank Introduction Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhababu Moral philosophy has long situated its problems, positions, and arguments with respecttotheviewsoftheimportanthistorical figuresinthefield.Aristotle, Kant, Hume,andMill,amongothers,haveloomedlargeinethicsoverthelastcentury,so muchsothatthosecontemporariesinfluencedbythemoftenself-identifyasKantians orHumeans,orasworkingout‘Aristotelian’or‘Millian’viewsasawayofdefending answerstocontemporaryquestionsinmoralphilosophy. Yetthehistoricalorientationofmoralphilosophershas,todate,largelyneglected onefigurewhooughttocommandatleastequalattention,namely,Nietzsche.The reasons for his neglect in Anglophone philosophy are, to be sure, understandable. The general timidity and conservatism of English-speaking moral philosophy—its inclinationtoelucidateanddefendmorality;itscommitment,moreoftenthannot,to themoralstatusquoandtocommon-sense(certainutilitarianshonorablyexcepted!); its lack of interest, until relatively recently, in psychological questions—made it generallyinhospitableforacriticasradicalandasnaturalisticallyinclinedasNietzsche. Untilrecently,moreover,fewEnglish-speakingphilosophers(PhilippaFootandthe late Bernard Williams are notable exceptions) even tried to defend watered-down versionsoftheradicalviewsofmoralityanditsvaluethatweassociatewithNietzsche. Making matters worse, most scholarly writing on Nietzsche has not been done by scholarsconversantwithseriousphilosophy,meaningthatphilosophicallyminded valuetheorists wereunlikely tofindreading thesecondary literature onNietzsche veryrewarding. Thelasttwentyyearshavemarkedadramaticchangeinthisstateofaffairs.Increas- ingly, talented moral philosophers—Simon Blackburn, Thomas Hurka, Nadeem Hussain, Joshua Knobe, Mathias Risse, and R. Jay Wallace are representatives in
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