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Dynamics, Structure, and Normativity Cecilie Eriksen

Moral Change

Cecilie Eriksen

Moral Change Dynamics, Structure, and Normativity

Cecilie Eriksen Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands

ISBN 978-3-030-61036-4    ISBN 978-3-030-61037-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61037-1 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Alex Linch shutterstock.com This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Dedicated to my parents, Bjarne and Lise.

Preface

Yet to admit the dying of knowledge, as to endure the dying of love, as to succumb to the death of God and of poetry, may be all that fits one for rebirth. (Cavell 1999: 449)

This started out as a curiosity quest and ended as a book of betrayal. An old fascination with Nietzsche’s call to ‘move beyond good and evil’ turned into speculations on what actually does lead to moral changes— and how, if the values of his own society were rotten and infected with an unhealthy form of religion, did Nietzsche find the resources to ethically criticize them? In the following philosophical investigations of moral change, I attempt to pay justice to several different aspects of the ethical, which are all essential, but difficult to balance and hold together in one outlook on life. These are aspects like change and continuity, human dependency and human freedom, what is common to humans and different between people and peoples, the immanent and the transcending aspect of morality as well as the ethical as being sui generis (i.e. not being reducible to, e.g. the social, legal, political, economic and biological) and po