RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
May 13, 2019 at 8:33 am
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2019 at 8:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 12, 2019 at 2:36 pm)Alan V Wrote:(May 12, 2019 at 11:08 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Here's a q, that doesn't get a lot of play, if relativism and/or nihilism leaves a person looking elsewhere for moral propositions, what "elsewhere" is there to look toward?
Well, let's say someone just became and atheist and wanted to investigate alternative ethical systems to get away from theistic morality. Per Wikipedia, he has a range of choices including nihilism:
Ethical theories that can be naturalistic
Cultural relativism and nihilism posit that each one of those systems is a farce. I was wondering where a person who thinks that all morality is arbitrary looks to get their moral propositions. I know they have them, lol.
(all ethical theories are "naturalistic")
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