Brian Leiter
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first heard Sep 2009
last heard Sep 2010
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And I've written some looking at versions of this in Bernard Williams and Susan Wolfe, Michael Sloat, and other people, and those have been the moral philosophers who have most often
And tried to claim Nietzsche, it seems to me that what they're doing is a good deal less radical than what Nietzsche was, in fact, up to.
I think this is particularly true of Bernard Williams, who, in one sense, did a lot of good by lending his prestige and authority to the legitimacy of reading Nietzsche.
But on the other hand, I think what he actually got out of Nietzsche was relatively limited and quite tepid by comparison to what Nietzsche was really after.
It goes back, Mark, to something you said early on, which is that in fact this is really very radical.
It's both a radical reconception of what it is to be an agent, what the structure of the mind is like, what actually has value, and much more radical, I think, than anything we find in in the mainstream of English-speaking moral philosophy.
Whether that will change remains to be seen.
I think to the extent that more philosophy
philosophers become interested in empirical psychology, there will be more interest in earlier figures who were engaged in a kind of speculative psychology in conjunction with doing moral philosophy.
And Nietzsche would be a prime example of that.
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