USING AND ABUSING NIETZSCHE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

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ACAMPORA, RR
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10.5840/enviroethics199416232
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Max Hallman has put forward an interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy according to which Nietzsche is a prototypical deep ecologist. In reply, I dispute Hallman's main interpretive claim as well as its ethical and exegetical corollaries. I hold that Nietzsche is not a ''biospheric egalitarian,'' but rather an aristocratically individualistic ''high humanist.'' A consistently naturalistic transcendentalist, Nietzsche does submit a critique of modernity's Christian-inflected anthropocentrism (pace Hallman), and yet-in his later work-he endorses exploitation in the quest for nobility (contra Hallman). I conclude that ecophilosophers need to exercise hermeneutical caution in any attempt to appropriate Nietzsche for environmentally ethical designs, lest they illegitimately ventriloquize their own moral voices into an authoritative but alien mouthpiece.
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