Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy; Volume II |
| Subtitle of host publication | Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics |
| Editors | Joao Constancio, Tom Bailey |
| Place of Publication | London UK |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Pages | 257-289 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781350035577, 9781350035584 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781474275958 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Keywords
- Ethics
- Kant
- Nietzsche
- Guyau
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Contra Kant: Experimental ethics in Guyau and Kant. / Ansell-Pearson, Keith; Ure, Michael Vincent.
Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy; Volume II : Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics. ed. / Joao Constancio; Tom Bailey. Vol. 2 1st. ed. London UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. p. 257-289 (Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
TY - CHAP
T1 - Contra Kant:
T2 - Experimental ethics in Guyau and Kant
AU - Ansell-Pearson, Keith
AU - Ure, Michael Vincent
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Powerful critiques of Kantian ethics are mounted towards the end of the nineteenth century by naturalistic-minded philosophers such as Jean-Marie Guyau (1854-88) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). This chapter examines the basis of these critiques and what, if anything, they have in common. The aim of such critiques is to challenge the universalist assumptions of Kantian ethics and favour instead a genuinely experimental ethics, one that is premised on a commitment to moral variability and that seeks to promote heterodox forms of living. As Nietzsche puts it in his text of 1881, Dawn, the idea of'the human being' is a 'bloodless abstraction' and 'fiction' (D 105, KSA 3.93). But on what precise grounds do figures such as Guyau and Nietzsche challenge universalism in ethics? And what kind of future for ethical life do they envisage? Here we are not so much concerned with whether these figures get Kant right, but with exploring the nature of their experimentalism and its grounds.
AB - Powerful critiques of Kantian ethics are mounted towards the end of the nineteenth century by naturalistic-minded philosophers such as Jean-Marie Guyau (1854-88) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). This chapter examines the basis of these critiques and what, if anything, they have in common. The aim of such critiques is to challenge the universalist assumptions of Kantian ethics and favour instead a genuinely experimental ethics, one that is premised on a commitment to moral variability and that seeks to promote heterodox forms of living. As Nietzsche puts it in his text of 1881, Dawn, the idea of'the human being' is a 'bloodless abstraction' and 'fiction' (D 105, KSA 3.93). But on what precise grounds do figures such as Guyau and Nietzsche challenge universalism in ethics? And what kind of future for ethical life do they envisage? Here we are not so much concerned with whether these figures get Kant right, but with exploring the nature of their experimentalism and its grounds.
KW - Ethics
KW - Kant
KW - Nietzsche
KW - Guyau
M3 - Chapter (Book)
SN - 9781474275958
VL - 2
T3 - Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy
SP - 257
EP - 289
BT - Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy; Volume II
A2 - Constancio, Joao
A2 - Bailey, Tom
PB - Bloomsbury Academic
CY - London UK
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