Nietzsche's Ethics

This Element explains Nietzsche''s ethics in his late works from 1886 onwards. The first three sections explain the basics of his ethical theory its context and presuppositions its scope and its central tension. The next three sections explore Nietzsche''s goals in writing a history of Christian morality (On the Genealogy of Morality) the content of that history and whether he achieves his goals. The last two sections take a broader look respectively at Nietzsche''s wider philosophy in light of his ethics and at the prospects for a Nietzschean ethics after Nietzsche.