“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason” --John Wesley
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Nietzsche and morality
MORAL SKEPTICISM AND MORAL DISAGREEMENT IN NIETZSCHE
by Brian Leiter
From the abstract:
by Brian Leiter
From the abstract:
This essay offers a new interpretation of Nietzsche's argument for moral skepticism (i.e., the metaphysical thesis that there do not exist any objective moral properties or facts), an argument that should be of independent philosophical interest as well. On this account, Nietzsche offers a version of the argument from moral disagreement, but, unlike familiar varieties, it does not purport to exploit anthropological reports about the moral views of exotic cultures, or even garden-variety conflicting moral intuitions about concrete cases. Nietzsche, instead, calls attention to the single most important and embarrassing fact about the history of moral theorizing by philosophers over two millennia: namely, that no rational consensus has been secured on any substantive, foundational proposition about morality.
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