This article was written by Nadeem Hussain and published in 2013. In it Hussain revises the view of Nietzsche’s metaethical position that he described six years earlier, in his article “Honest Illusions: Valuing for Nietzsche’s Free Spirits.” He reviews the different metaethical positions he and other philosophers have attributed to Nietzsche and he finds them all lacking: error theory, fictionalism, realism, and noncognitivism. He concludes that Nietzsche’s “texts lack the granularity that would really be needed to resolve the claims of competing metaethical interpretations” (2013, p. 411).
Nadeem Hussain. 2013. Nietzsche’s Metaethical Stance. In Ken Gemes and John Richardson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche (389-412). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kindle Version.