RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
June 10, 2019 at 2:53 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2019 at 2:53 pm by SenseMaker007.)
Quote:How is ethical nihilism impossible?
Well, it depends what we mean.
If somebody thinks that they hold a truly nihilistic viewpoint and claims loudly that their viewpoint is nihilistic, then does that mean they really hold a nhilistic viewpoint? Or is it possible that their viewpoint is less nihilistic than they think it is? Is it possible that they are implicitly making evaluations without realizing it?
If it's possible for such people to be wrong about their viewpoint then ethical nihilism is impossible because it's meaningless to say that a statement is meaningless. Nihilists claim that X is neither true nor false but nothing is neither true nor false. Something is either true or it isn't. So they're simply mistaken about their own nihilism.
But that is because I hold to a specific theory of truth. Under some theories of truth ethical nihilism is possible because under some theories of truth things can be neither true nor false. But those theories of truth make no sense to me.
