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Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on 'Morality'

Simon May
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      This critique of Nietzsche's famous attack on traditional morality, and of his controversial ethics of "life-enhancement" reveals Nietzsche as both revolutionary and conservative - as one who repudiates traditional "moral" conceptions of God, guilt, asceticism, pity, and truthfulness, and yet retains a demanding ethics of discipline, conscience, "self-creation", generosity, and honesty. In particular, May shows how Nietzsche rejects truthfulness as an unconditional value and yet celebrates it as one of his own highest values, whose worth is determined by who is pursuing it, for what end, and when in their lives. May is strongly critical of various aspects of Nietzsche's thought - his self-defeating conception of justice, his assumption that "life-enhancement" necessarily demands world-affirmation, his ambition to de-deify the world, and the impossible and undesirable autonomy of the "Ubermensch". But Nietzsche is shown to offer modernity key elements of a coherent ethic, and to provide moral philosophy with important tools for reassessing some of its most cherished values and concepts.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Simon May EAN: 9780198238461 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 385 g HEIGHT: 223 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1999-12-02 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General WIDTH: 144 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Simon May is Departmental Fellow in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is author of The Pocket Philosopher, a book of his own aphorisms (Metro, 1999).
      This critique of Nietzsche's famous attack on traditional morality, and of his controversial ethics of "life-enhancement" reveals Nietzsche as both revolutionary and conservative - as one who repudiates traditional "moral" conceptions of God, guilt, asceticism, pity, and truthfulness, and yet retains a demanding ethics of discipline, conscience, "self-creation", generosity, and honesty. In particular, May shows how Nietzsche rejects truthfulness as an unconditional value and yet celebrates it as one of his own highest values, whose worth is determined by who is pursuing it, for what end, and when in their lives. May is strongly critical of various aspects of Nietzsche's thought - his self-defeating conception of justice, his assumption that "life-enhancement" necessarily demands world-affirmation, his ambition to de-deify the world, and the impossible and undesirable autonomy of the "Ubermensch". But Nietzsche is shown to offer modernity key elements of a coherent ethic, and to provide moral philosophy with important tools for reassessing some of its most cherished values and concepts.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Simon May EAN: 9780198238461 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 385 g HEIGHT: 223 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1999-12-02 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General WIDTH: 144 cm SPINE:

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      Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Simon May is Departmental Fellow in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is author of The Pocket Philosopher, a book of his own aphorisms (Metro, 1999).

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