Unfortunately neither Nietzsche’s ideas about the nature of value creation nor his suggestions about what specific values should be “created” have seemed as clear to readers as his negative critique of traditional values The disparity is often marked in the literature by doubts about whether Nietzsche has a “positive” ethics to offer There is something to this reaction Nietzsche’s critique has a clear target and is developed at an extended scale whereas his suggestions about alternative values can seem scattered or telegraphic That said it is not as though Nietzsche is the least bit shy about making evaluatively loaded claims including “positive” ones To some extent disappointment among commentators in search of “positive views” arises from our looking for the wrong things—for example seeking a systematically organized axiological theory when Nietzsche himself is skeptical of any such project or expecting any “positive” ethics to accommodate certain “moral intuitions” which Nietzsche is more inclined to challenge than to save This section surveys some territory Nietzsche covers under the heading “value creation” After mentioning different options for understanding the nature of such “creation” it explores some of the values he promotes