Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue

By: Lester H. Hunt

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Paperback | 6 May 1993 | Edition Number 1

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In "Ecce Homo" (1908), Friedrich Nietzsche calls himself "the first immoralist" and adds: "that makes me the annihilator "par excellence.""
Lester Hunt examines this and other radical claims in order to show that Nietzsche does have a coherent and formidable ethical and political philosophy. Unlike most other scholars in the field, he approaches Nietzsche not merely to discover what he stood for, but to discern whether his ideas are ones we should accept and use.
Now in paper, "Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue" examines the problems implicit in Nietzsche's own position, and explores in detail areas such as his views on human rights, his "anti-political" stance, and his novel use of the idea of "experimentation" as an ethical ideal. What emerges at the core of Nietzsche's work is a powerful and original "ethics of virtue" based entirely on his conception of good character. Lester Hunt uses Nietzsche's writings as a starting point for a critique of a wide, contemporary ethical project--one that should inform our lives as well as our thoughts.

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"Hunt has written an important (and delightfully engaging) book that exemplifies a way of reading Nietzsche that is all too rare. Not content merely to restate Nietzsche, Hunt interacts with Nietzsche's ideas, utilizing the ones he agrees with to overcome the problems that he sees in some of the others. In particular, Hunt's blueprint for a Nietzschean liberalism is suggestive, and a a challenge to other readers of Nietzsche to extend and revise his thought in new directions."-"The Philosophical Review "Hunt's study . . . contributes to the aim of this series to publish sympathetic treatments of Nietzsche that also address the concerns of analytic' philosophers . . . . He works out the interesting arguments that underlie Nietzsche's important enigmatic statements, and he justifies his reconstructions with a close reading of relevant texts . . . Highly recommended."-"Choice

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