RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
June 10, 2019 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2019 at 2:48 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(June 10, 2019 at 2:39 pm)SenseMaker007 Wrote: It would be more accurate to say that ethical nihilism is impossible than to say that nihilism is making normative statements.
Ok. That's an interesting idea. But I'm curious:
How is ethical nihilism impossible?
(June 10, 2019 at 2:39 pm)SenseMaker007 Wrote: It is a strange definition of nihilism to say that a non-empty evaluation is nihilistic.
But nihilists make the claim that there is no moral knowledge.
Error theorists say the same thing: "there are no moral features in the world" and "all moral judgments are false"
It makes sense to say that error theorists are nihilists.