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A History of Utilitarian Ethics: Studies in Private Motivation and Distributive Justice, 1700–1875, written by Samuel Hollander (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy. forthcoming.
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19Nietzsche on Self-ReverenceJournal of Nietzsche Studies 53 (2): 181-201. 2022.Respect and self-respect are the cornerstone motivations in Kantian moral psychology. But “respect” is an ambiguous term. As Stephen Darwall has argued, sometimes respect refers to a constraint on practical reason, but at other times it refers to a person-directed pro-attitude. In this article, I argue that this distinction is a problem regarding self-respect since self-respect, in the latter sense, lacks warrant. Furthermore, I discuss Nietzsche’s conception of “self-reverence,” which in some w…Read more
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15In this thesis, I focus on two undervalued aspects of Nietzsche’s admiration of the ancient Greeks: the healthy psychology of the Greeks, and the origins of this health in Homeric poetry. I argue that Homer was a cultural physician for the ancient Greeks and is responsible for creating a new, healthy set of values through his epic poetry. In turn, these Homeric values brought Greece into its “tragic age”—a time during which Greek culture was “the highest authority for what we may term cultural h…Read more
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67Nietzsche and ShameJournal of Nietzsche Studies 50 (2): 233-249. 2019.In the preface to GS, Nietzsche famously exclaims, "Those Greeks were superficial—out of profundity!".1 And he attributes one aspect of this profound superficiality to the Greeks' "respect for the bashfulness [Scham] with which nature has hidden behind riddles and iridescent uncertainties". For Nietzsche, both the Greeks' shame and their respect for shame played important and healthy psychological and social roles. So, Nietzsche praises shame in the sense that "care [Scham] for one's reputation"…Read more
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52Nietzsche, Self-Disgust, and Disgusting MoralityJournal of Nietzsche Studies 50 (1): 79-105. 2019.Among other things, Nietzsche considers himself a psychologist, and many of his ideas about human behaviors, dispositions, and attitudes are empirical and falsifiable. As readers of Nietzsche, we should hope that he got some of his psychological facts right. I agree with Joshua Knobe and Brian Leiter when they argue that "neglect of Nietzsche in moral psychology is no longer an option for those philosophers who accept that moral psychology should be grounded in real psychology."1 This article ai…Read more
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11Contesting Nietzsche by Christa Davis Acampora (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49 (2): 295-300. 2018.In Contesting Nietzsche, Christa Davis Acampora analyzes the significance for Nietzsche’s thought of the ancient Greek agon. She aims to show why the agon is important for understanding several philosophical themes prevalent in Nietzsche’s work, including naturalism, agency, and responsibility. Acampora also argues that we should understand Nietzsche’s own engagement with other philosophical contestants as part of his own agonistic enterprise, highlighting Homer, Socrates, Paul, and Wagner as fo…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Love |
History of Ethics |
19th Century Philosophy |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Henry Sidgwick |
Areas of Interest
Thomas Hobbes |
Baruch Spinoza |
History of Political Philosophy |
Meta-Ethics |