RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
May 12, 2019 at 12:18 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2019 at 12:18 pm by Angrboda.)
"That way the fallacy of the stolen concept lies."
Ultimately, worldviews are built upon individual truth apt propositions but are not necessarily reducible to all or a subset of them. This is a process of developing a model of the world and its behaviors and the individual propositions are simply descriptive components of that model. In that sense, a worldview which does not grant the existence of moral truths is every bit as much a worldview with a moral component as one that asserts that there are moral truths. They both have stances toward the existence of moral objects and so in that sense are moralistic, if not necessarily moral systems. I think it is the sum of the propositions, the model or worldview of reality which needs to be characterized as a whole, as it is not necessarily going to be captured in any of the pieces.
This is also why I have some qualms about the idea that atheism is simply the lack of belief. They may indeed lack that necessary proposition, though many, including many so-called agnostic atheists implicitly hold to a model of the universe that does not include a god. I think it may be a bit disingenuous to hold that you lack a belief in god, yet ascribe to a model of reality that does not include gods. But I could be wrong. I haven't explored very far down that path.
Ultimately, worldviews are built upon individual truth apt propositions but are not necessarily reducible to all or a subset of them. This is a process of developing a model of the world and its behaviors and the individual propositions are simply descriptive components of that model. In that sense, a worldview which does not grant the existence of moral truths is every bit as much a worldview with a moral component as one that asserts that there are moral truths. They both have stances toward the existence of moral objects and so in that sense are moralistic, if not necessarily moral systems. I think it is the sum of the propositions, the model or worldview of reality which needs to be characterized as a whole, as it is not necessarily going to be captured in any of the pieces.
This is also why I have some qualms about the idea that atheism is simply the lack of belief. They may indeed lack that necessary proposition, though many, including many so-called agnostic atheists implicitly hold to a model of the universe that does not include a god. I think it may be a bit disingenuous to hold that you lack a belief in god, yet ascribe to a model of reality that does not include gods. But I could be wrong. I haven't explored very far down that path.
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