Nietzsche and Contemporary Metaethics

Nietzschean Constructivism: Ethics and Metaethics for All and None*

is paper develops an interpretation of Nietzsche’s ethics and metaethics that reconciles his apparent antirealismwith his engagement in normative discourse. Interpreting Nietzsche as ametaethical constructivist— as holding, to a rst approximation, that evaluative facts are grounded purely in facts about the evaluative attitudes of the creatures to whom they apply— reconciles his vehement decla...

Miller, Alexander, An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics, Oxford: Polity Press, 2003, pp

Does Metaethics Rest on a Mistake?

One consequence of the professionalization of philosophy is its ever increasing specialization. Within the normative domain, what has come to be known as metaethical inquiry is increasingly conducted independently of substantive ethical reflection. Even if this trend is intelligible given the economic and institutional pressures that spawned it, it is reasonable to wonder if insights are lost a...

Nietzsche and the Knowledge of the Child at Play: On the Question of Metaphysics

In his article "Nietzsche and the Knowledge of the Child at Play: On the Question of Metaphysics" Johannes Welfing raises the question of a Nietzschean metaphysical presence (did Nietzsche define the essence of life and of being and thus also implicitly establish an imperative about the way in which one should lead one's life, or did he refrain from all definition, truth, system or law whatsoev...

Freedom, Resistance, Agency

The aim of this article is to show (1) that freedom and agency are among Nietzsche’s central concerns, (2) that his much-discussed interest in power in fact originates in a first-person account of freedom, and (3) that this novel understanding of the phenomenon of freedom informs his ‘theory’ of agency. I will argue that while Nietzsche questions the weight philosophers have given to the first-...