RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
June 10, 2019 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2019 at 12:22 pm by SenseMaker007.)
Quote:Arguments to it's truth, properly understood and genuinely believed and to be believed provides it's minimal normative framework.
Arguments for metaethical positions are not arguments for normative positions.
Quote:A nihilist cannot be a nihilist without believing that it is true and that they should, therefore, be so.
The bolded part is a non-sequitur.
Quote: That other more elaborate normatives are in error.
You cannot be a moral nihilist without believing that other metaethical positions are logically in error but there's absolutely nothing about moral nihilism that says that you have to believe that any particular normative position is morally in error. In fact, if that were the case it wouldn't be moral nihilism.
Quote: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.
It's not making a normative case.
Quote:Even at it's most reduced, nihilism does tell you to do and not do x, specifically, referring to your moral intuitions.
That's not moral nihilism.
