RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
June 10, 2019 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2019 at 11:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Arguments to it's truth, properly understood and genuinely believed and to be believed provides it's minimal normative framework.
A nihilist cannot be a nihilist without believing that it is true and that they should, therefore, be so. That the world is so. That other more elaborate normatives are in error. If nihilism does not present some compelling reason to disregard those other normatives as they are, then it doesn't make it's own normative case very well.
Even at it's most reduced, nihilism does tell you to do and not do x, specifically, referring to your moral intuitions.
A nihilist cannot be a nihilist without believing that it is true and that they should, therefore, be so. That the world is so. That other more elaborate normatives are in error. If nihilism does not present some compelling reason to disregard those other normatives as they are, then it doesn't make it's own normative case very well.
Even at it's most reduced, nihilism does tell you to do and not do x, specifically, referring to your moral intuitions.
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