RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
May 13, 2019 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2019 at 2:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 13, 2019 at 12:42 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(May 13, 2019 at 8:33 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: (all ethical theories are "naturalistic")
Not to nitpick... but the ethics of Plato, GE Moore, and (I think) Kant (but I'm not sure), are non-naturalistic (aka metaphysical).
And divine command... a piss-poor ethical theory... but an ethical theory nonetheless...
You're thinking of the terms novel employment within certain meta-ethical theories. Moores non-natural moral facts were only "non-natural" in that they weren't empirical. He, like plato with his notions of wellbeing, assumed that these facts were just as natural (in the natural/supernatural) dichotomy as any other fact. Moore would tell you to watch a bad thing happen if you wanted to see what bad was. Plato would point to the consequences of poor thought and act. Kant referred back to a categorical imperative, a commandment of reason. I'll leave it to you to work out whether or not that evades "naturalistic" grounding.
Divine command is already covered under cultural relativism and nihilism.
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