Concept

Moral nihilism

Overview

meta-ethical view that nothing is intrinsically moral or immoral

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Moral nihilism

• Callicles
• Marquis de Sade
• J. L. Mackie
• Axel Hägerström

Related ideas

• Argument
• Gilbert Harman
• Expressivism
• Light
• Metaethics
• Christine Korsgaard
• Non-cognitivism
• Reductio ad absurdum
• J. L. Mackie
• Prima facie
• Quantum entanglement
• Wave–particle duality
• Naturalism (philosophy)
• Moral relativism
• Definite description
• Contemporary philosophy
• Moral realism
• Richard Joyce (philosopher)
• Axel Hägerström
• Akeel Bilgrami
• Moral supervenience

Opposing perspectives

• Moral universalism
• Metaethics
• Truth
• Moral constructivism

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Akeel Bilgrami
• Moral supervenience

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