Was ist also Loben? Nietzsche on the ethics of praise

This paper explores the ethics of praise as discussed in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s occasional remarks on praise are shown to fall onto three broad categories, namely: i) metaphysical; ii) psychological and iii) ethical. During the course of the paper, Nietzsche’s approach is located in wider theoretical context of contemporary work on the ethics of praise and moral philosophy.