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  • Chapter 5 - Nietzsche and Moral Education

  • from Part I - Historical Insights for Contemporary Moral Education
  • Edited by Douglas W. Yacek, Universität Dortmund, Mark E. Jonas, Wheaton College, Illinois, Kevin H. Gary, Valparaiso University, Indiana
  • Book:
    Moral Education in the 21st Century
    Published online:
    01 June 2023
    Print publication:
    15 June 2023, pp 69-93

  • Summary

    In this chapter, I argue that the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is of central importance to the theory and practice of moral education in the 21st century. To make this case, I examine an oft-neglected text of Nietzsche’s early philosophical work: Schopenhauer as Educator. I argue that this text advances a theory of moral education with three key components: (i) a view about the particular cultural context of moral education in modernity, (ii) a conception of the proper aims of moral education, and (iii) an account of the appropriate pedagogical methods of moral education. I then discuss the kind of theory Nietzsche advances. I show that Nietzsche’s theory fits within a broadly exemplarist outlook, though it expands the standard theory and practice of exemplarist moral education in important ways. I argue that Nietzsche’s theory of moral education suggests two novel forms of exemplarist motivation – self-exemplarism and fallibilistic exemplarism – and further specifies the psychological conditions for moral aspiration and transformation to occur in educational spaces.