Robertson, Simon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8340-1317
2017.
Rescuing Nietzsche from constitutivism.
Journal of Philosophical Research
42
, pp. 353-377.
10.5840/jpr201739100
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Abstract
Constitutivist theories in ethics seek to derive and justify normative ethical claims via facts about constitutive features of agency. In Agency and the Foundations of Ethics: Nietzschean Constitutivism, Paul Katsafanas uses Nietzsche to elucidate a version of the position he believes avoids worries besetting its competitors. This paper argues that Nietzschean constitutivism falters in many of the same places: it may remain vulnerable to ‘schmagency’ objections; it faces problems giving an account of the weights of reasons that adequately explains why we have more reason to perform some actions than others; and it is unable to generate normativity from constitutive aims. These doubts have wider import than Nietzschean constitutivism alone, though: they give good reason to think that such difficulties arise from the very structure of constitutivist approaches.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) P Language and Literature > PE English |
| Publisher: | Philosophy Documentation Center |
| ISSN: | 1053-8364 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 21 December 2016 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 22 November 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2024 05:00 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/97006 |
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