RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
May 13, 2019 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2019 at 2:43 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(May 13, 2019 at 1:54 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: You're thinking of the terms novel employment within certain meta-ethical theories.
True. I'm working with Moore's categorizations. But I think he hit the nail on the head.
Moore Wrote:The chapter began by dividing the views to be criticised into (a) those which, supposing good to be defined by reference to some supersensible reality, conclude that the sole good is to be found in such a reality, and may therefore be called Metaphysical, (b) those which assign a similar position to some natural object, and may therefore be called Naturalistic.http://fair-use.org/g-e-moore/principia-...chapter-ii
I think "supersensible" is a key word here, and Moore would certainly place Plato in the "metaphysical" category given the nature of his forms. And I want to say that all deontology is directed toward this same supersensible kind of object... "supersensible" merely meaning "not assigned to a natural object (like pleasure with the hedonists). It would be an interesting thing to investigate: whether deontology/Kantian ethics would be metaphysical in Moore's conception. I think they would.
