Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics

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Much high-quality work has recently been done to elucidate Nietzsche’s ethics. But little attention has been given to the critical relations between his ethics and the Kantian approach to ethics and politics, dominant in both his and our time. Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics examines the critical responses to Kantian senses of agency, freedom, responsibility, duty, equality and normativity and to specific Kantian moral and political duties that can be derived from Nietzsche’s work. These responses and the normative, theoretical and methodological issues that they raise are analysed and evaluated by established scholars from both Nietzschean and Kantian perspectives. The result is a rich and extensive treatment of the critical significance of Nietzsche and Kantian ethics and politics for each other. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Notes on Contributors Editors Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations and References for Nietzsche and Kant Abbreviations of Nietzsche’s Writings Abbreviations of Nietzsche’s Writings in German Abbreviations of Nietzsche’s Writings in English Abbreviations of Kant’s Writings Abbreviations of Kant’s Writings with Indicationof the Corresponding AA Volume References Nietzsche’s writings Kant’s writings Translations of Nietzsche’s and Kant’s Writings Nietzsche Kant Introduction Contributions Notes References 1 The Problem of Normative Authority in Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche 1. Kant on the problem of normative authority 2. Hegel on the problem of normative authority 2.1 Hegel’s objection to Kant 2.2 Hegel’s alternative to the Kantian strategy 3. The relationship between the Nietzschean, Kantian and Hegelian theories of normative authority 3.1 Nietzsche agrees that freedom places determinate constraints on what can be willed 3.2 How Hegelian could Nietzsche’s theory be? 3.3 A theory that is both Kantian and Hegelian? 4. Nietzsche’s solution to the problem of normative authority 4.1 What is will to power? 4.2 Will to power as a claim about the essential nature of willing 4.3 Why does freedom require revaluation in terms of power? 4.4 The structure of Nietzsche’s theory 5. Conclusion Notes References 2 Normativity and Moral Psychology: Nietzsche’s Critique of Kantian Universality 1. Scene setting 2. Kant’s derivation 3. Nietzsche’s basic challenge 3.1 Nietzsche and normativity? 3.2 Nietzschean self-.legislation 3.3 Two objections 4. Nietzsche versus Kant on moral psychology 5. Concluding remarks Notes References 3 Kant, Nietzsche and the Discursive Availability of Action 1. Kant and the discursive availability of action 2. Nietzsche and the discursive availability of action 3. Differences between Kant and Nietzsche 4. Conclusion Notes References 4 Kant’s ‘Respect for the Law’ as the ‘Feeling of Power’: On (the Illusion of) Sovereignty 1. Kant on the motives of pure practical reason (KpV chapter III) Interlude: An attenuated version of Kant’s account of Achtung 2. Nietzsche on remembering and forgetting 3. Nietzsche’s physiology of freedom 4. Conclusion Notes References 5 Freedom as Independence: Kant and Nietzsche on Non-Domination, Self-Love and the Rivalrous Emotions 1. Kant on freedom, self-love and maturity 2. Nietzsche on freedom and ethical pathologies 3. Nietzsche’s criticism of Kant 4. Conclusion Notes References 6 Autonomy, Spiritual Illness and Theodicy in Kant and Nietzsche 1. Conceptions of justice and autonomy 2. Genealogy and theodicy 3. Spiritual illness and the bad conscience 4. The redemptive potential of spiritual illness 5. Coda: Justifying nature Notes References 7 Phantom Duty? Nietzsche versus Königsbergian Chinadom 1. The origin of duty? 2. Nietzschean duties Notes References 8 Spontaneity and Sovereignty: Nietzsche’s Concepts and Kant’s Philosophy 1. Early neo-.Kantianism and the inadequacy of Kant’s psychology 2. Nietzsche’s uses of ‘spontaneity’ 3. Spontaneity in the Nachlass of Daybreak 4. Nietzsche, Goethe and Schopenhauer on Kant’s ‘radical evil’ 5. Nietzsche’s anti-Kantian ‘categorical imperative’ and the autonomy of the sovereign individual Notes References 9 Contra Kant: Experimental Ethics in Guyau and Nietzsche 1. Introduction 2. 3. 4. 5. Notes References 10 Question or Answer?: Kant, Nietzsche and the Practical Commitment of Philosophy 1. From answer to question (BGE 11, KSA 5.24–6) 2. A philosophy summarized in questions (GS 343–6, KSA 5.573–81) 3. Friendship and nihilism 3.1 Nihilism 3.2 Friendship and philosophy 3.3 Kant on friendship 3.4 Nietzsche’s inverted idealism 4. The practical commitment of Nietzsche’s philosophy Notes References Complete Bibliography Index