Agency and the foundations of ethics : Nietzschean constitutivism /

Paul Katsafanas explores how we can justify normative claims such as 'murder is wrong'. He defends an original account of constitutivism - the view that we do so by showing that agents become committed to them in virtue of acting - and resolves philosophical puzzles about the metaphysics,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Katsafanas, Paul
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, > 1844-1900. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, > 1844-1900 Agent (Philosophy) Ethics. Morale. ethics (philosophy) PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism. Ethics Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Three challenges for ethical theory
Normativity as inescapability
Constitutivism and self-knowledge
Constitutivism and self-constitution
Action's first constitutive aim : agential activity
Action's second constitutive aim : power
The structure of Nietzschean constitutivism
The normative results generated by Nietzschean constitutivism
Activity, power, and the foundations of ethics.