• Moral nihilism (also called ethical nihilism) is the meta-ethical view that nothing is morally right or morally wrong and that morality doesn't exist....
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  • affirmation of life. Earlier forms of nihilism, however, may be more selective in negating specific hegemonies of social, moral, political and aesthetic thought...
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  • that there are moral truths, error theory entails moral nihilism and, thus, moral skepticism; however, neither moral nihilism nor moral skepticism conversely...
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    that moral nihilism is not itself a moral position about what is allowed and prohibited but the rejection of any moral position. Moral nihilism agrees...
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  • moral nihilism, or else incoherence. These critics argue specifically that the moral relativists reduce the extent of their input in normative moral discussions...
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  • distinguishing feature. Moral universalism is opposed to moral nihilism and moral relativism. However, not all forms of moral universalism are absolutist...
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  • Ethical naturalism (also called moral naturalism or naturalistic cognitivistic definism) is the meta-ethical view which claims that: Ethical sentences...
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  • at all Epistemological nihilism, disbelief in knowledge Moral nihilism, disbelief in objective moral facts Political nihilism, the rejection of the necessity...
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  • taboo LaVeyan Satanism Libertarianism Libertine novel The Libertines Moral nihilism Orgy Polyamory Rake (character) Sodomy Sodom and Gomorrah Sexual deviancy...
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    that corporations can be considered moral agents as well as a kind of legal person. Capacity (law) Moral nihilism Moral psychology Anomie Apathy Value judgment...
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  • The paradox of nihilism is a family of paradoxes regarding the philosophical implications of nihilism, particularly situations contesting nihilist perspectives...
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  • Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored...
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    implies the rejection of moral values. On this view, absurdism brings with it a highly controversial form of moral nihilism. This means that there is...
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  • skepticism is divided into three subclasses: moral error theory (or moral nihilism), epistemological moral skepticism, and noncognitivism. All three of...
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    which the broader philosophy of nihilism originated. In Russian, the word nigilizm (Russian: нигилизм; meaning 'nihilism', from Latin nihil 'nothing') came...
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  • Prescriptivism Quasi-realism Projectivism Moral fictionalism Moral nihilism Moral skepticism There is a debate as to whether moral relativism is actually an anti-realist...
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  • interest Realpolitik Realism (international relations) Self-interest Moral nihilism Burns, J. H. (1991). Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450–1700...
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    male–female interpersonal relationships; school shootings; religion and moral nihilism; relativism; and lack of respect for the values that built Western society...
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    In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek: δέον, 'obligation, duty' + λόγος, 'study') is the normative ethical theory that the...
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    Demons (Dostoevsky novel) (category Works about nihilism)
    allegory of the potentially catastrophic consequences of the political and moral nihilism that were becoming prevalent in Russia in the 1860s. A fictional town...
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    read and admired Sade, he concludes that Sade's "profusely illustrated moral nihilism has entered our cultural bloodstream at the highest intellectual and...
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    philosophy) Might makes right Negarchy Peace through strength Realpolitik Moral nihilism Deterrence theory Devetak, Richard, ed. (2012). An introduction to international...
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    position of Moral nihilism is warranted. Moral relativism accepts the idea of morality, but asserts that there are multiple potential arbiters of moral truth...
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    from Jonathan Dancy's theory of moral particularism, to Aristotelian virtue ethics, to Kantian deontology, to moral nihilism." UCLA philosophy professor Pamela...
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  • zero, one, or several things with intrinsic value. Intrinsic nihilism, or simply nihilism (from Latin nihil, 'nothing') holds that there are zero quantities...
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  • Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is...
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  • for example, a stone, a chair, or the sky may be considered amoral Moral nihilism, the belief that the notion of morality is meaningless Amoral (band)...
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  • Religion prevents science from "falling into ... obsolete materialism and moral nihilism." Albert Einstein remarked that the realms of religion and science in...
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  • distinguishing feature. Moral universalism is opposed to moral nihilism and moral relativism. However, not all forms of moral universalism are absolutist...
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  • hierarchy Moral imperative Moral luck Moral nihilism Moral obligation Moral particularism Moral patienthood Moral perception Moral psychology Moral rationalism...
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