(March 10, 2015 at 5:52 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Can one be a moral nihilist but not an existential nihilist?
I tend to flip those around and postulate a nihilistic approach to morals, but that existence itself is not, and cannot be, meaningless. (existential nihilism) Meaning, for me, is an a priori category which we find ourselves 'thrown into' by virtue of the nature of our minds.
Is that a consistent position? I'm not sure. It would seem existential meaning might ground ethical meaning.
That sounds about right to me, if I understand you correctly. Reality itself must first be capable of supporting meaning if there is to be the possibility of minds that can assign value.
