Nietzsche on values

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ID4079680
AuthorsAndrew Huddleston (0000-0001-5007-7215, University of Warwick, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume19
Issue11
Publication date2024-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.70006
OpenAlexW4404618832
LanguageEN
References cited31

Values, and a critique of values, are at the center of Nietzsche's philosophical work. He famously proposes to launch a "revaluation" of values. But this raises a number of philosophical questions about the nature of values for Nietzsche, and how he proposes to critique them. I will begin by tracing Nietzsche's descriptive psychology of valuing. Then I will look to Nietzsche's sociology of values: what is it for a framework of values to be ascendant at a given time and place? We will next turn to the mode of value critique that Nietzsche employs. Then we take up the question of whether there is an overarching value for Nietzsche (such as power or life, for example). Finally, I will turn to the question of whether such values might have genuine normative authority. In other words, is Nietzsche's evaluative schema simply his preferred outlook? Or does it have a more secure claim on the attention of others

Epistemology · Normative · Power (physics · Schema (genetic algorithms · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Will to power · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

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