#1177 Mark Alfano: Nietzsche on Virtue

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a returned guest, Dr. Mark Alfano. He's professor of philosophy at Macquarie University. And today we're talking about his book, Nietzsche on Virtue.

So Dr. Alfano, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to everyone. Thank you so much, Ricardo. It's really nice to be back.

Okay, so start by telling us about the premise of the book and the kinds of goals you add with it and also the methodology you apply there because you apply a kind of digital humanities methodology, right? So tell us all about that. Yeah, um, so The the thing that's disappointed me in the Nietzsche literature for for years is that people tend to kind of like cherry pick just a few passages when they want to interpret what he has to say about different topics in moral psychology, virtue ethics, virtue epistemology, and and other areas. So I I wanted to do something more systematic.

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