Journal of Nietzsche Studies 48 (1):56-70 (2017)
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Nietzsche holds that one should believe what best promotes life, and he also accepts the correspondence theory of truth. I’ll call this conjunction of views Nietzschean pragmatism. This article provides textual evidence for attributing this pragmatist position to Nietzsche and explains how his broader metaethical views led him to it.The following section introduces Nietzschean pragmatism, discussing how Nietzsche expresses it in BGE, and distinguishing it from William James’s pragmatism about truth. The second section explains how Nietzsche’s skepticism about values that can’t be grounded in individual passion attracted him to this kind of pragmatism. The third section explores an early application of Nietzschean...
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| Keywords | Nietzsche Pragmatism Epistemic normativity |
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| DOI | 10.5325/jnietstud.48.1.0056 |
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Nietzsche and the Morality Critics.Brian Leiter - 2001 - In John Richardson & Brian Leiter (eds.), Nietzsche. Oxford University Press.
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