tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post8771435675471748586..comments2023-11-30T06:32:59.453-06:00Comments on Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog: Huddleston on "Nietzsche's Meta-Axiology: Against the Sceptical Readings"Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-24654514447737103502015-09-08T12:45:55.101-06:002015-09-08T12:45:55.101-06:009) My remarks in the final paragraph of the paper ...9) My remarks in the final paragraph of the paper were not, I believe, a “non-sequitur” on your arguments. It would be a non-sequitur if I accepted your starting point, and then offered something that didn’t follow from that starting point. I did not do this. Our interpretations disagree several steps back. First, I disagree that “false consciousness” with regard to morality (a very useful notionAndrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576032916449256613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-31720627957974826812015-09-08T12:45:35.782-06:002015-09-08T12:45:35.782-06:005) In the fourth section of the paper, I discuss t...5) In the fourth section of the paper, I discuss two main passages (one from GS, one from TSZ), because these are the two most often cited by proponents of skeptical readings. Of these, GS 301 is, I believe, the sole passage in Nietzsche’s published work that can be read as strong evidence in support of blanket meta-axiological skepticism. (I am happy to stand corrected and have my mind changed Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576032916449256613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-27829438280320211592015-09-08T12:45:02.903-06:002015-09-08T12:45:02.903-06:002) Regarding the subjectivity and objectivity of t...2) Regarding the subjectivity and objectivity of taste, you note that the remarks about taste “occur within a rich web of anti-realist passages” that invite the skeptical reading. Yet precisely what is in dispute is whether these passages are anti-realist, and if so, to what extent (about morality, about various religious and metaphysical doctrines, or about taste in addition). I agree with you Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576032916449256613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-81143637878836724072015-09-08T12:44:23.474-06:002015-09-08T12:44:23.474-06:00Thanks, Brian, for engaging with my paper so exten...Thanks, Brian, for engaging with my paper so extensively and so thoughtfully. <br /><br />Some points in reply (posted as separate comments) <br /><br />1) On the issue of attributing to Nietzsche an argument from disagreement: I don’t see how the Nachlass passage {WP, 428} (its textual pedigree aside) supports the claim you want to make. In the first half of the passage, Nietzsche makes nearly Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576032916449256613noreply@blogger.com