Deriving Ethics from Action: A Nietzschean Version of Constitutivism

Katsafanas, Paul

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“…Claims of this kind could be taken as evidence for attributing to Nietzsche the view that values can be reduced to power (Schacht: ). After addressing these issues, I conclude this section with a brief comparison between my interpretation, Richardson's reading ) of Nietzsche's superhuman values and Katsafanas’ () recent constitutivist account of Nietzsche's metaethical position.…”

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“…This close connection between willing and power is in different ways a crucial plank of both Richardson's (; ) and Katsafanas’ () interpretations of Nietzsche's metaethics. In what follows I defend my interpretation against the objection that it fails to account for the close connection between power and value by offering a short assessment of their views.…”

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“…Unlike Richardson, Katsafanas interprets Nietzsche as a constitutivist about value (). On this general point I am in agreement with him.…”

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“…33 These assertions might seem to support a closer connection between value and power than my interpretation makes room for because they might suggest that power is the constitutive aim of all willing. This close connection between willing and power is in different ways a crucial plank of both Richardson's (1996; and Katsafanas' (2011) interpretations of Nietzsche's metaethics. In what follows I defend my interpretation against the objection that it fails to account for the close connection between power and value by offering a short assessment of their views.…”

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Nietzsche on the Diachronic Will and the Problem of Morality

Tanesini

2012

Eur J Philos

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In this paper I offer an innovative interpretation of Nietzsche's metaethical theory of value which shows him to be a kind of constitutivist. For Nietzsche, I argue, valuing is a conative attitude which institutes values, rather than tracking what is independently of value. What is characteristic of those acts of willing which institute values is that they are owned or authored. Nietzsche makes this point using the vocabulary of self‐mastery. One crucial feature of those who have achieved this feat, and have consequently become agents, is that they possess a diachronic or long will and are consequently capable of the rational governance of future behaviour. The possession of a will of this sort is crucial because it is a necessary condition for engaging in temporally unified activities which are a requisite of authorship. Nietzsche, I argue, makes these points in his doctrine of eternal recurrence which provides a test that acts of will must pass to count as laws. In the final section of the paper I argue for the superiority of this interpretation over some of its competitors.

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“…Unlike Richardson, Katsafanas interprets Nietzsche as a constitutivist about value (). On this general point I am in agreement with him.…”

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Nietzsche on the Diachronic Will and the Problem of Morality

Tanesini

2012

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“…For example: Objective realism-Schacht (1983); Subjective realism-Reginster (2006); Nihilism-Leiter (2000); Expressivism-Clark and Dudrick (2007); Fictionalism-Hussain (2007); Constitutivism-Katsafanas (2011).5 Among the strongest arguments given in the recent literature for seeing Nietzsche as a meta-axiological skeptic-that is, as someone claiming that no values have genuine evaluative standing-are those ofLeiter, (2000); Leiter (Forthcoming) and ofHussain (2007). In this chapter I will be in dialogue with these readings as the best representatives of the interpretation opposed to mine.…”

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Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture

Huddleston¹

2019

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Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture"In 1872 Nietzsche shocked the European philological community with the publication of e Birth of Tragedy. In this fervid rst book Nietzsche looked to ancient Greek culture in the hope of nding the path to a revitalization of modern German culture. Cultural health was at this point unquestionably his paramount concern. Yet postwar Nietzsche scholarship has typically held that a er his Untimely Meditations which followed soon a er, Nietzsche's philosophy took a sharply individualist turn-an interpretation largely due to Walter Kaufmann's noble and in uential e ort to counter the Nazi appropriation of Nietzsche by stressing Nietzsche's anti-political individualism and downplaying his seemingly more noxious Kulturphilosophie. But even a er Nietzsche gave up on the idea of German culture as something blessed with inner truth and greatness and pregnant with the potential for renewed splendor-heaping scorn instead on the Germans and their newlyfounded Reich-he still, I argue, continued to take culture, as a collective social achievement, to be something of prime importance. Indeed, it is for this reason that he took the ourishing of great individuals-especially artists and intellectuals-to be vital. eir singularity and their excellence redeems the decadent cultural landscape from the bovine blight of the "last man" and the self-satis ed, uncreative, and barren mediocrity he represents. My dissertation uses Nietzsche's perfectionistic ideal of a ourishing culture as a point of departure for investigating many of the central themes in his work: his criticism of the ideals enshrined in conventional morality; his attack on Christianity; his celebration of individual human excellence and cultural accomplishment; his lamentations about cultural decline; his troubling remarks about the need for slavery ("in some sense or other") if a society is to ourish; and his grand ambitions for a "revaluation of all values." i

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Immoralism: Against the Morality of Improvement

Miyasaki

2022

Nietzsche’s Immoralism

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Deriving Ethics from Action: A Nietzschean Version of Constitutivism

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Nietzsche on the Diachronic Will and the Problem of Morality

Nietzsche on the Diachronic Will and the Problem of Morality

Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture

Immoralism: Against the Morality of Improvement

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