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Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
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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. Leiter 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.
Author: Brian Leiter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/21/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780199696505
publications include Nietzsche on Morality (2002; 2015), which has been called "the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the last twenty years" (Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2010).
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.
Author: Brian Leiter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/21/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780199696505
About the Author
Brian Leiter, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values, University of Chicago
publications include Nietzsche on Morality (2002; 2015), which has been called "the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the last twenty years" (Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2010).
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