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Jun 14, 2002 · “Moral Skepticism” names a diverse collection of views that deny or raise doubts about various roles of reason in morality. Different versions of moral skepticism deny or doubt moral knowledge, justified moral belief, moral truth, moral facts or properties, and reasons to be moral.
- Practical Moral Skepticism
Practical moral skepticism answers the common question, “Why...
- Descartes' Epistemology
(For examples of non-foundationist interpretations, see...
- Moral Epistemology
A non-cognitivist, however, may seek to explain how the...
- Moral Non-Naturalism
1. The Naturalistic Fallacy. Moore famously claimed that...
- Practical Moral Skepticism
Moral nihilism (also called ethical nihilism) is the meta-ethical view that nothing is morally right or morally wrong and that morality does not exist. [1] [2] Moral nihilism is distinct from moral relativism, which allows for actions to be wrong relative to a particular culture or individual.
Moral absolutism: there are facts about which actions are right and wrong, and these facts do not depend on the perspective, opinion, or anything about the person who happens to be describing those facts. Moral nihilism: there are no facts about which actions are right and wrong.
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Ethical nihilism or moral nihilism rejects the possibility of absolute moral or ethical values. Instead, good and evil are nebulous, and values addressing such are the product of nothing more than social and emotive pressures.
Moral nihilism and moral relativism are metaethical theories, theories of the nature of morality. Nihilism is the view that there are no moral facts. It says that nothing is right or wrong, or morally good or bad.
Aug 26, 2014 · Zimmerman discusses a number of arguments for moral skepticism and a variety of non-skeptical accounts of moral knowledge, dividing the latter into rationalist and empiricist camps. According to Zimmerman, one can directly infer “ought” from “is” without the aid of intuitions or cognitive “seemings.”.
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This chapter lays out the basic nihilist position, and distinguishes between abolitionist versions of nihilism, which hold that we should abandon moral talk, and revisionist versions, which suggest retaining moral language but changing what we use such language to do.
