Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?

[DLJ]

As with most if not all Philosophy-related pages I’ve read on Wikipedia, they seem to go astray after the word “therefore”.

This one goes wrong sooner by equating “moral” with “ethical”.

No like Wikipedia? I guess you are an Encyclopedia Britannica guy, then. I bolded the important bit.

Generally, the terms ethics and morality are used interchangeably, although a few different communities (academic, legal, or religious, for example) will occasionally make a distinction. In fact, Britannica’s article on ethics considers the terms to be the same as moral philosophy. While understanding that most ethicists (that is, philosophers who study ethics) consider the terms interchangeable, let’s go ahead and dive into these distinctions.

https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-t...and-ethics

I've told you this before. Unless you are a lawyer, ethics is indistinct from morality. Philosophers use the terms interchangeably. This is a philosophy thread, not a courtroom.

I'll get to the rest of what you said later.

It was nice to see your post, man.

Cheers. I still can’t login using my laptop but your topic was irresistible so my phone had to do.

Yes, Britannica all the way.

Looks like the lawyers are on to something. There has to be a reason why philosophers haven’t sorted this out yet.

I’ll have a word with them next time I see them down the pub.

Making a distinction is not only useful it’s essential to really getting to the root of it all.

I’ve got a feeling though that I may not be able to shift such entrenched semantics and may have to do a Heidegger and invent some terms to represent different inputs and outputs of the ‘morality system’.