Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0801-8478
Date of Award
5-4-2022
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Jessica Berry
Second Advisor
Allison Pineros-Glasscock
Third Advisor
Eric Wilson
Abstract
Certain contemporary Nietzsche scholars claim to have discovered Nietzsche’s position on metaethics through a careful reading and interpretation of his texts. Whose account is most accurate? Unfortunately, Nietzsche’s texts underdetermine his views on metaethics; we lack the textual evidence to settle these debates decisively. Does this mean that the historical Nietzsche’s metaethical beliefs, ultimately inaccessable, are of little use to contemporary metaethical study? Or instead, must metaethicists interested in Nietzsche fundamentally change how Nietzsche’s works are to be understood? While I present scholars who argue that Nietzsche’s corpus as a whole should be understood in radically different ways, I ultimately argue that we can avoid both of the above questions if scholars working in the history of philosophy tradition pivot their focus from attempting to offer a descriptive account of Nietzsche’s metaethical view and instead embrace appropriation.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/28814980
Recommended Citation
Callerame, Keegan, "Nietzsche's Metaethics, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Appropriation." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2022.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/28814980
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