Nietzsche’s Justice 25660_Sedgwick.indb 1 2013-09-20 11:36:04 McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of ideas series editor: Philip J. cercone 1 Problems of cartesianism 10 consent, coercion, Edited by Thomas M. Lennon, and Limit: John M. Nicholas, and John the Medieval Origins of W. Davis Parliamentary Democracy Arthur P. Monahan 2 the Development of the idea of history in Antiquity 11 scottish common sense Gerald A. Press in Germany, 1768–1800: A contribution to the 3 claude Buffier and history of critical Philosophy thomas Reid: Manfred Kuehn two common-sense Philosophers 12 Paine and cobbett: Louise Marcil-Lacoste the transatlantic connection David A. Wilson 4 schiller, hegel, and Marx: state, society, and the Aesthetic 13 Descartes and the enlightenment ideal of Ancient Greece Peter A. Schouls Philip J. Kain 14 Greek scepticism: 5 John case and Aristotelianism Anti-Realist trends in Renaissance england in Ancient thought Charles B. Schmitt Leo Groarke 6 Beyond Liberty and Property: 15 the irony of theology and the the Process of self- Nature of Religious thought Recognition in eighteenth- Donald Wiebe century Political thought 16 Form and transformation: J.A.W. Gunn A study in the Philosophy 7 John toland: his Methods, of Plotinus Manners, and Mind Frederic M. Schroeder Stephen H. Daniel 17 From Personal Duties 8 coleridge and the inspired Word towards Personal Rights: Anthony John Harding Late Medieval and early Modern Political thought, 9 the Jena system, 1804–5: c. 1300–c. 1650 Logic and Metaphysics Arthur P. Monahan G.W.F. hegel Translation edited by 18 the Main Philosophical John W. Burbidge and Writings and the Novel Allwill George di Giovanni Friedrich heinrich Jacobi Introduction and notes by Translated and edited by H.S. Harris George di Giovanni 25660_Sedgwick.indb 2 2013-09-20 11:36:04 19 Kierkegaard as humanist: 29 Jacob Burckhardt and Discovering My self the crisis of Modernity Arnold B. Come John R. Hinde 20 Durkheim, Morals, 30 the Distant Relation: and Modernity time and identity in spanish- W. Watts Miller American Fiction Eoin S. Thomson 21 the career of toleration: John Locke, Jonas Proast, 31 Mr simson’s Knotty case: and After Divinity, Politics, and Due Richard Vernon Process in early eighteenth- century scotland 22 Dialectic of Love: Anne Skoczylas Platonism in schiller’s Aesthetics 32 Orthodoxy and David Pugh enlightenment: George campbell in 23 history and Memory the eighteenth century in Ancient Greece Jeffrey M. Suderman Gordon Shrimpton 33 contemplation 24 Kierkegaard as theologian: and incarnation: Recovering My self the theology of Marie- Arnold B. Come Dominique chenu 25 enlightenment and Christophe F. Potworowski conservatism in 34 Democratic Legitimacy: Victorian scotland: Plural Values the career of and Political Power sir Archibald Alison F.M. Barnard Michael Michie 35 herder on Nationality, 26 the Road to egdon humanity, and history heath: the Aesthetics F.M. Barnard of the Great in Nature Richard Bevis 36 Labeling People: French scholars on society, 27 Jena Romanticism and its Race, and empire, 1815–1849 Appropriation of Jakob Böhme: Martin S. Staum theosophy – hagiography – Literature 37 the subaltern Appeal to Paolo Mayer experience: self-identity, Late Modernity, and the 28 enlightenment and community: Politics of immediacy Lessing, Abbt, herder, and the Craig Ireland Quest for a German Public Benjamin W. Redekop 25660_Sedgwick.indb 3 2013-09-20 11:36:05 38 the invention of Journalism 47 under conrad’s eyes: ethics: the Path to Objectivity the Novel as criticism and Beyond Michael John DiSanto Stephen J.A. Ward 48 Media, Memory, and 39 the Recovery of Wonder: the First World War the New Freedom David Williams and the Asceticism of Power 49 An Aristotelian Account Kenneth L. Schmitz of induction: creating 40 Reason and self-enactment something from Nothing in history and Politics: Louis Groarke themes and Voices 50 social and Political Bonds: of Modernity A Mosaic of contrast F.M. Barnard and convergence 41 the More Moderate side F.M. Barnard of Joseph de Maistre: 51 Archives and the Views on Political Liberty event of God: and Political economy the impact of Michel Foucault Cara Camcastle on Philosophical theology 42 Democratic society David Galston and human Needs 52 Between the Queen Jeff Noonan and the cabby: 43 the circle of Rights expands: Olympe de Gouges’s Modern Political thought Rights of Women after the Reformation, 1521 John R. Cole (Luther) to 1762(Rousseau) 53 Nature and Nurture in French Arthur P. Monahan social sciences, 1859–1914 44 the canadian Founding: and Beyond John Locke and Parliament Martin S. Staum Janet Ajzenstat 54 Public Passion: 45 Finding Freedom: hegel’s Rethinking the Grounds Philosophy and the for Political Justice emancipation of Women Rebecca Kingston Sara MacDonald 55 Rethinking the Political: 46 When the French the sacred, Aesthetic Politics, tried to Be British: and the collège de sociologie Party, Opposition, and Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi the Quest for the civil 56 Materialist ethics and Disagreement, 1814–1848 Life-Value J.A.W. Gunn Jeff Noonan 25660_Sedgwick.indb 4 2013-09-20 11:36:05 57 hegel’s Phenomenology: 59 ideas, concepts, and Reality the Dialectical Justification of John W. Burbidge Philosophy’s First Principles 60 the enigma of Perception Ardis B. Collins D.L.C. Maclachlan 58 the social history of ideas 61 Nietzsche’s Justice: in Quebec, 1760–1896 Naturalism in search of Yvan Lamonde an ethics Translated by Phyllis Aronoff Peter R. Sedgwick and Howard Scott 25660_Sedgwick.indb 5 2013-09-20 11:36:05 25660_Sedgwick.indb 6 2013-09-20 11:36:05 Nietzsche’s Justice NAtuRALisM iN seARch OF AN ethics Peter R. sedgwick McGill-Queen’s university Press Montreal & Kingston • London • ithaca 25660_Sedgwick.indb 7 2013-09-20 11:36:05 © McGill-Queen’s university Press 2013 isbn 978-0-7735-4268-6 (cloth) isbn 978-0-7735-4269-3 (paper) isbn 978-0-7735-8983-4 (ePDF) isbn 978-0-7735-8984-1 (ePUB) Legal deposit fourth quarter 2013 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free McGill-Queen’s university Press acknowledges the support of the canada council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of canada through the canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication sedgwick, Peter R., author Nietzsche’s justice: naturalism in search of an ethics / Peter R. sedgwick. (McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of ideas; 61) includes bibliographical references and index. issued in print and electronic formats. isbn 978-0-7735-4268-6 (bound). – isbn 978-0-7735-4269-3 (pbk.). – isbn 978-0-7735-8983-4 (ePDF). – isbn 978-0-7735-8984-1 (ePUB) 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844–1900 – criticism and interpretation. 2. Justice. 3. Naturalism. 4. ethics. i. title.  ii. series: McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of ideas; 61 b3318.J87s43 2013 172'.2 c2013-904700-x c2013-904701-8 this book was typeset by interscript in 10/12 New Baskerville. 25660_Sedgwick.indb 8 2013-09-20 11:36:05 For Richard Schacht 25660_Sedgwick.indb 9 2013-09-20 11:36:05