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Most of them have to do with causing harm to other members of the community and violating their rights as they are defined within the community. For example murder is almost universally considered as an immoral act. However, there are situations for which murder is considered justifiable. A court will find someone innocent of murder if they can ...
Mar 19, 2015 · Immoralism therefore seems to be defensible only from the viewpoint of a morality, which makes it appear to be as self-refuting as another notorious Nietzschean claim, that truths are illusions. I have argued elsewhere that Nietzsche actually overcame this paradoxical claim about truth in his later works, starting with his Genealogy of Morals ( Clark 1990 ).
Immoralism allows individuals to act according to their own desires and interests, without being constrained by external moral codes. In contrast, moralism holds individuals accountable to universal moral truths that dictate what is right and wrong. One key difference between immoralism and moralism is their views on the nature of morality ...
By examining the central thesis of Nietzsche's immoralism and elucidating many of his key ideas, e.g. ‘the will to power’, ‘master–slave morality’ and the ‘overman’ (superman), Foot argues that although Nietzsche's immoralism should be given serious consideration, the emphatic conclusion is that, in the last analysis, no part of his attack on morality is convincing.
The dazzling beauty of Nietzsche’s writings may blind the reader to the explosive character of his opinions.¹ Nietzsche expounded a radical and aristocratic egoism; poured scorn on Platonism, Christianity, modernity, enlightenment, democracy, socialism, and the emancipation of women; denounced the belief in human equality as a calamitous ...
- Peter Berkowitz
Abstract. Foot discusses Nietzsche's immoralism in the light of the foregoing account of moral evaluation. She begins with a preliminary account of Plato's response to immoralism in the first two books of the Republic. Foot distinguishes three theses in Nietzsche that may be called ‘immoralist’: the denial of free will, the attack on ...
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Immoralism is defined primarily, then, against a particular kind of rationalism in favor of a certain way of grounding morality in instinct rather than reason. To be a moralist is first and foremost to be a certain kind of rationalist. But immoralism is not for that reason irrationalism. It is opposed only to the “fanaticism” in which ...
