"First, having any ethical virtue involves, as a constitutive part, perceiving a relevant range of values correctly (e.g., part of being courageous is ascertaining what really is fearful, threatening, etc.). Second, values depend in part on what we are like as subjects. Third, and last, there are more specific kinds than humankind to which we belong that bear on what we're like as subjects."
"The Gay Science was a really big one. I took Bob Pippin's Nietzsche course as an undergrad, and the first day of class he told us, 'Nietzsche doesn't want to win an argument. Nietzsche wants to change your life.'"
Caroline Wall is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University specializing in ethics, value theory, and 19th-century philosophy. Her dissertation argues for cultivating individual virtues in addition to universal human virtues. The argument rests on three premises: ethical virtue inherently involves correct perception of relevant values, values depend partly on the subject's characteristics, and specific kinds beyond humankind shape what subjects are like. Wall pursues additional projects including work on apologies and forgiveness using Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, value perception in combat sports, and a critique comparing how social sciences either degrade or enhance human freedom in the German Idealist sense.
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