Brian Leiter
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first heard Sep 2009
last heard Sep 2010
Brian Leiter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sense ought to be rejected because it is bad for higher human beings.
It's my view, and this is another one of my controversial and debated interpretive claims about Nietzsche, that when it comes to judgments of moral goodness, he actually doesn't think those judgments have any kind of objective standing or any kind of universal standing.
He thinks that is, he is, as it were, a pure moral anti-realist about judgments about moral goodness.
He thinks there is no objective fact of the matter, that these kinds of judgments are, as it were, matters of evaluative taste, which, of course, is another reason why you'd want to limit your readership to those who shared this particular taste.
In other words, it's perfectly possible, let us say a herd animal, whoever they are, mistakenly picked up one of Nietzsche's books and started reading it and got the whole argument straight.
Perhaps they read it in conjunction with.
my book.
So they they got the entire argument straight and they said
Yeah, you know, I see that morality in the Pajarda sense is bad for um higher human beings.
But so what?
It's really good for the rest of us, right?
It's really good for the herd.
I take it Nietzsche doesn't think that person has made any kind of cognitive or other mistake.
They just, as it were, have a different evaluative taste.
It is Nietzsche's evaluative taste, one which he insists upon with great rhetorical ferocity, that the flourishing of the highest human beings and
And the existence of cultural greatness are much more important than the well-being of the herd or or the majority.
So, in that sense, I don't think he thinks the sort of crucial judgment on which his attack on morality depends, namely that it's an objection to morality because it is prudentially bad for higher human beings.
can claim to any kind of objective or universal status.
In fact I think he expects the opposite.
That is, different types of people will react very differently to that particular kind of criticism.
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