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184 - Brian Leiter: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality

184 - Brian Leiter: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality

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Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at
the University of Chicago Law School, founder and Director of
Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values, and is
best known in the philosophical world for his work on Nietzsche
and legal philosophy. He is the founding editor of the Routledge
Philosophers book series, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law,
and Philosophical Gourmet Report, which is the canonical—as well
as extremely helpful and illuminating—ranking of philosophy
departments and PhD programs in the English-speaking world. He
also maintains the world’s most popular philosophy blog, Leiter
Reports. Brian was also a guest on episode 97, where he and
Robinson discussed Karl Marx, ideology, and historical
materialism, but in this episode they talk about Friedrich
Nietzsche’s moral psychology and his criticism of morality. Among
the topics they discuss are The Genealogy of Morals, The Gay
Science, moral realism and anti-realism, moral psychology, and
Nietzsche’s thoughts on free will. Brian’s latest book is Moral
Psychology with Nietzsche (Oxford, 2021).

Brian’s Website: https://www.brianleiter.net

Brian’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLeiter

Leiter Reports: https://leiterreports.typepad.com

Moral Psychology with Nietzsche: https://a.co/d/3dJZBeZ

OUTLINE

00:00 In This Episode…

00:04 Introduction

02:14 Who Was Friedrich Nietzsche?

10:50 Naturalism in Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology

20:24 Nietzsche and the Death of God

28:36 Nietzsche and Moral Anti-Realism

40:32 Did Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?

47:43 Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Morals

01:11:50 The Main Takeaways from Nietzsche’s Moral Philosophy

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