RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
June 11, 2019 at 6:16 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2019 at 6:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Then, properly understood and held to be true, the positions do force a normative semantics about what you can and can't do. Should and shouldn't do. It may be relatively minimal, but if you believe x to be true, then you ought not affirm y. This isn;t the only implication available to demonstrate the ubiquity of normative semantics bundled in moral comments, even metaethical comments, but it would be enough if it were to make us wonder whether we can ever discuss morality without creating normative statements by default.
I can't personally say that this is a good argument for the incoherence of the positions, particularly if it's something shared by every position. If all comments on morality carry a normative structure, then a normative structure to nihilism wouldn't be any more an issue for that position than the next. It may all be meaningless (in some meaningful way, lol), but even meaninglessness can present a normative structure. This might be down to the semantics of moral comments themselves - not a problm with the positions, but in how we communicate or conceive of them. Might be our problem, not the positions problems, properly. Maybe human beings can't coherently hold to nihilism as a s9imple matter of constantly importing meaningfulness and normativity, even if nihilism is coherent and true.
I can't personally say that this is a good argument for the incoherence of the positions, particularly if it's something shared by every position. If all comments on morality carry a normative structure, then a normative structure to nihilism wouldn't be any more an issue for that position than the next. It may all be meaningless (in some meaningful way, lol), but even meaninglessness can present a normative structure. This might be down to the semantics of moral comments themselves - not a problm with the positions, but in how we communicate or conceive of them. Might be our problem, not the positions problems, properly. Maybe human beings can't coherently hold to nihilism as a s9imple matter of constantly importing meaningfulness and normativity, even if nihilism is coherent and true.
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