The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology

Abstract

Abstract Moral psychology is the branch of ethics directly concerned with the psychology of the kind of agency we exercise in acting morally. Moral psychology asks whether such agency is psychologically possible, what motivations it requires, what the source of those motivations might be, and what the emotive and cognitive mechanisms are by which they translate into actions. Until fairly recently (e.g., Doris 2002; Nichols 2004; Prinz forthcoming), Anglophone philosophers writing about moral psychology have tended to approach these questions ‘from the armchair,’ and without regard to pertinent empirical findings about human psychology.

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