Moral Nihilism

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Terrence Manley
1/21/18
Ethics
Reading Report #1: Moral Nihilism Moral nihilism is the form of moral skepticism that says the world contains no moral features and so there is nothing for moral claims to be true of. Basically, moral nihilism is a philosophical concept that states nothing is moral or immoral. Moral nihilism composes itself of two major categories, the error theory and expressivism. According to moral nihilists, whenever we don’t intervene in situations and issues that require our opinion that consists of feelings and emotions, factually, there is no definite right or wrong conclusion to the situation. For an example, we can say that killing an individual is bad or evil. We can say that getting that removing a cat from a tree is good, but when you analyze both situations without feelings, emotions or judgement, the fact that killing someone or removing a cat from a tree isn’t bad or good because there is no definite moral reality to describe the nature of likewise situations. Morality is an …show more content…

The error theory has three main claims, there are no moral features in the world, no moral judgements are true, and moral judgements always fail to describe the moral features of things. No moral facts mean no moral claims are correct. The error theory is based upon knowledge, knowledge is based entirely upon truth. No moral truths conclude that there isn’t and can’t be any moral knowledge to acquire. To give a better understanding of this statement, a non-fiction book is composed entirely of facts and no opinions. Therefore, you gain knowledge from it. As opposed to a fiction book, there can be many opinions and judgements in the book, therefore, you gain bias information from it, and even then, that information isn’t based off any facts. Error theorists can still find such actions like killing or robbing unproductive and despicable and have their hearts set against

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