Single Idea 22503

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature]

Full Idea

It is only for a different species that Nietzsche's most radical revaluation of values could be valid. It is not valid for us as we are, or are ever likely to be.

Gist of Idea

Nietzsche could only revalue human values for a different species

Source

report of Friedrich Nietzsche (Works (refs to 8 vol Colli and Montinari) [1885]) by Philippa Foot - Natural Goodness 7

Book Reference

Foot,Philippa: 'Natural Goodness' [OUP 2003], p.115


A Reaction

This is the Aristotelian view, that our values and virtues arise out of our human nature, with which I largely agree, though we should resist its rather conservative tendencies.

Related Idea

Idea 24086 The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche]