Does freedom imply morality? : the understanding and interrelation of freedom, action, and morality in Kant and Nietzsche's normative philosophy.

Abstract

This paper imagines a debate between Nietzsche and Kant in the realms of normativity, metaphysics of the self, and philosophy of action. It also displays how these concepts are necessarily interrelated in these two philosophers systems. Last, it proposes a novel understanding of Nietzsche’s normative principles in accordance with the metaphysical understandings laid out throughout the debate.