Nietzsche was surprisingly neglected by most English-language moral philosophers until recently. This volume capitalizes on a growth of interest in Nietzsche's work on morality from two sides--from scholars of the history of philosophy and from contributors to current debates on ethical theory. In eleven new essays, leading philosophers aim both to advance philosophical understanding of Nietzsche's ethical views--his normative and meta-ethics, his moral psychology, his views on free will and the nature of the self--and to make Nietzsche a live participant in contemporary debates in ethics and cognate fields.

Brian Leiter is John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director for the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values at the University of Chicago.

Neil Sinhababu is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore.

• Introduction


• PART I: NORMATIVE ETHICS AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY


• 1: Thomas Hurka: Nietzsche: Perfectionist


• 2: Bernard Reginster: The Will to Power and the Ethics of Creativity


• 3: Mathias Risse: Nietzschean 'Animal Psychology' versus Kantian Ethics


• 4: Joshua Knobe and Brian Leiter: The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology


• 5: R. Jay Wallace: Ressentiment, Value, and Self-Vindication: Making Sense of Nietzsche's Slave Revolt


• 6: Christopher Janaway: Guilt, Bad Conscience, and Self-Punishment in Nietzsche's Genealogy


• PART II: METAETHICS


• 7: Nadeem J.Z. Hussain: Honest Illusion: Valuing for Nietzsche's Free Spirits


• 8: Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick: Nietzsche and Moral Objectivity: The Development of Nietzsche's Metaethics


• 9: Peter Poellner: Affect, Value, and Objectivity


• 10: Neil Sinhababu: Vengeful Thinking and Moral Epistemology


• 11: Simon Blackburn: Perspectives, Fictions, Errors, Play