Moral Psychology with Nietzsche

Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values at the University of Chicago, where he teaches and writes about moral, political, and legal philosophy in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions. His many publications include Nietzsche on Morality (2002; 2015), which has been called "the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the last twenty years" (Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2010).

Brian Leiter's second book on Nietzsche brings together ideas and arguments that have already had a significant influence on the field through their earlier formulations in his articles from the past two decades. It is thus indispensable reading for anyone interested in Leiter's evolving project of showing that Nietzsche has the correct naturalistic approach to issues in moral philosophy and moral psychology. As usual with Leiter's scholarship, this monograph is extremely clear, densely argued, and philosophically sophisticated.

• Introduction: Nietzsche's Naturalistic Moral Psychology Part I: Metaphysics and Epistemology of Value 1: Nietzsche's Anti-Realism about Value: the Explanatory Arguments 2: Nietzsche's Metaethics: Against the Privilege Readings 3: Moralities are a Sign-Language of the Affects 4: Anti-Realism, Value, Perspectivism Part II: Freedom, Agency, and the Will 5: Nietzsche's Theory of Agency: The Will and Freedom of the Will 6: A Positive View of Freedom? 7: The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology (with Joshua Knobe)