Single Idea 7185

[catalogued under 23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology]

Full Idea

Replacement of the categorical imperative by the natural imperative.

Gist of Idea

Replace the categorical imperative by the natural imperative

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 09[27])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.146


A Reaction

This places Nietzsche rather firmly with evolutionary psychologists (who see morality in evolutionary terms), which he probably would not like. I just don't believe we are helpless victims of nature, and nor must we endorse what it asks of us.