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Web End = J Value Inquiry (2015) 49:387403
DOI 10.1007/s10790-015-9495-8
Ruth Abbey1
Published online: 19 June 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
We have cause to fear him who hates himself, for we shall be the victims of his rancour and his revenge. (D 517)1[Wer sich selber hasst, den haben wir zu frchten, denn wir werden die Opfer seines Grolls und seiner Rache sein.] 2
In Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View, Christine Swanton strives to move the virtue ethics tradition forward on a number of fronts. She aims to offer a more pluralist
1 I use Hollingdales translations of Nietzsches work, with occasional modications. Passages of Nietzsches work are cited parenthetically with the following abbreviations:
AOM Assorted Opinions and Maxims, HH II, op. cit
D Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, eds. M. Clark and B. Leiter, trans. R.J.
Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
EH Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin, 1992). GM On the Genealogy of Morals, trans R.J. Hollingdale and W. Kaufmann (New York: Vintage
Books, 1989).
GS The Gay Science, ed. B. Williams, trans. J. Nauckhoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001).
HH Human, All too Human, vols. I and II, ed. R. Schacht, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996).
WS The Wanderer and His Shadow in HH II, op. cit.
2 The source for the German quotations is Digitale Kritische Gesamtausgabe Werke und Briefe http://www.nietzschesource.org/#eKGWB
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1 University of Notre Dame, 217 OShaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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approach to virtue ethics which has, so far, been dominated by neo-Aristotelianism.3 Swanton also wants to bring a deeper appreciation of psychology to virtue ethics in recognition of the complexity and opacity4 of action and motivation. In this latter endeavor, she mobilizes the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche5 (among others), drawing in particular on Nietzsches understanding of self-love to help demarcate virtue from vice.6 As Swanton sees it, self-love...