Moral nihilism, also known as ethical nihilism, is the meta-ethical view that nothing is moral or immoral. For example, a moral nihilist would say that killing someone, for whatever reason, is not inherently right or wrong. This view can lead to amoralism. Moral nihilism must be distinguished from ethical subjectivism and moral relativism, which do allow for moral statements to be true or false in a non-objective sense, but do not assign any static truth-values to moral statements.

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  • Moral nihilism, also known as ethical nihilism, is the meta-ethical view that nothing is moral or immoral. For example, a moral nihilist would say that killing someone, for whatever reason, is not inherently right or wrong. This view can lead to amoralism. Moral nihilism must be distinguished from ethical subjectivism and moral relativism, which do allow for moral statements to be true or false in a non-objective sense, but do not assign any static truth-values to moral statements. Insofar as only true statements can be known, moral nihilists are moral skeptics. Some prominent, recent moral nihilists are J. L. Mackie (1977) and Richard Joyce (2001).
  • 倫理学でいう虚無主義は、正邪、善悪、道徳・倫理（規範）といったものは存在せず、倫理命題には真偽が存在しないとする立場である。絶対主義や相対主義と対立する。 プラトーンの『国家』に出てくるソフィストであるトラスュマコス (Θρασύμαχος) の態度が虚無主義に近い。また情動主義は「○○が正しい」という文は感情的な主張を意味するという説を唱える立場で、倫理そのものを否定する虚無主義とは異なる。
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  • May 2009
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  • Nihilism (disambiguation)
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  • the meta-ethical position
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  • Moral nihilism, also known as ethical nihilism, is the meta-ethical view that nothing is moral or immoral. For example, a moral nihilist would say that killing someone, for whatever reason, is not inherently right or wrong. This view can lead to amoralism. Moral nihilism must be distinguished from ethical subjectivism and moral relativism, which do allow for moral statements to be true or false in a non-objective sense, but do not assign any static truth-values to moral statements.
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  • Moral nihilism
  • 虚無主義 (倫理)
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