Moral Psychology with Nietzsche

Brian Leiter, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values, University of Chicago

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).

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)