Nietzsche’s conceptual ethics

If ethical reflection on which concepts to use has an avatar, it must be Nietzsche, who took more seriously than most the question of what one should live by. Yet Nietzsche engages in two seemingly disparate modes concept evaluation: looks concepts’ effects, other express. I offer account expressive character unifies these modes. His fundamental concern, argue, is with effects are likely have going forward, but this concern motivates his preoccupation express a specific sense: he works back from via need fills conditions that engender and thereby render pointful. For pointful for serve concerns its users through effects. But even when not pointful, expresses presuppositions pointfulness, we can work by asking would such concept. What emerges powerful approach conceptual ethics beyond formal virtues vices at buy into using them.