Nietzsche on morality

Both an introduction to Nietzsche's moral philosophy, and a sustained commentary on his most famous work, On the Genealogy of Morality, this book has become the most widely used and debated secondary source on these topics over the past dozen years. Many of Nietzsche's most famous ideas - the ""slave revolt"" in morals, the attack on free will, perspectivism, ""will to power"" and the ""ascetic ideal""--Are clearly analyzed and explained. The first edition established the centrality of naturalism to Nietzsche's philosophy, generating a substantial scholarly literature to which Leiter responds

Revised edition of: Routledge philosophy guidebook to Nietzsche on morality. 2002.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface and acknowledgements to the second edition; Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Nietzsche, naturalist or postmodernist?; What is naturalism?; What kind of naturalist is Nietzsche?; How could Nietzsche be a naturalist?; Nietzsche's project: the revaluation of values; 2 Intellectual history and background; Classical philology; The Presocratics and the Sophists; Schopenhauer; German Materialism; Summary.

3 Nietzsche's critique of morality I: the scope of the critique and the critique of moral agencyThe scope problem; "Morality" as the object of Nietzsche's critique: a formal account; The Descriptive Component of MPS; The critique of the Descriptive Component: fatalism and agency; The critique of free will; Transparency of the self; Universality and similarity; 4 Nietzsche's critique of morality II: the critique of moral norms; "Higher men"; Higher men and the critique of MPS: objections; The normative content of MPS and the causal mechanism of harm; Metaethics: realism about value?

Metaethics: anti-realism about valueTwo final puzzles; Conclusion; 5 Wh…