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Zarathustra's metaethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Neil Sinhababu
Neil Sinhababu*
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Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, 3 Arts Link, Singapore117570, Singapore
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*Email: phins@nus.edu.sg
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Abstract

Nietzsche takes moral judgments to be false beliefs, and encourages us to pursue subjective nonmoral value arising from our passions. His view that strong and unified passions make one virtuous is mathematically derivable from this subjectivism and a conceptual analysis of virtue, explaining his evaluations of character and the nature of the Overman.

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NietzscheZarathustrametaethicsvirtuesubjectivismOverman
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , June 2015 , pp. 278 - 299
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Copyright © The Authors 2015

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