Mr. Authoritarian
I think probably the more hilarious things these days of our crumbling post modern western society is all the rebellious nihilists who say they don’t believe in anything but the moment the discussion of race is brought up they’ll be the first to call you a bad nazi racist.
What, a one size fits all nihilism?
I am a moral nihilist. Which is to say that in regard to human interactions in the either/or world, I very much believe in objectivism. The laws of nature, mathematics, the empirical world around us, logic, etc., certainly do not seem to be just a matter of one’s personal opinion.
Here you have to go all the way out on the metaphysical limb…sim worlds, solipsism, dream worlds, the matrix, etc.
On the other hand, in regard to moral and political value judgments, how do philosophers explain the fact that for thousand of years now, going all the way back to the birth of philosophy itself, an objective moral and political philosophy has never even come close to being establsihed, let alone sustained.
Instead, we have all these folks on all these One True Paths all clamoring to insist that their own dogmatic assessment really, really, really is the One True Path to Enlightenment.
It’s just that some insist objective – natural – morality is derived [and only derived] from their God or their ideology or their philosophical assumptions or their grasp of biological imperatives.
Mr. Authoritarian:
But then my usual next response would be, “You just told me that you don’t believe morality or ethics are even real things, how did you jump so quickly to le racism is bad?”
Yes, there are moral nihilists who are no less adamant that moral nihilism itself is the One True Path. I’m just not one of them. Instead, from my frame of mind “here and now”, I am not able to convince myself that morality is objective pertaining to actual sets of circumstances in a No God world.
Unless, perhaps, given a particular set of circumstances, someone here would like encompass what they deem to be objective/natural morality.