The Philosophy Discussion Forum

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” ― Mark Twain What is right? How will it gratify mankind? Astound? Astound how? “Compassion is the basis of morality.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer This is an ideal. That isn't the scope of things in the real world. What is mo...

Arising_uk wrote:You appear to be a Christian of some kind? As you equate killing and murder.

You missed out punishment.

If you read what I said clearly I was speaking of the perception of a moral philosopher and the inherent hypocrisy or contradictions within their beliefs.

It has been said that for "evil" to persist that "good" people only have to do nothing and not act against it. It's a pretty hilarious traditional moral saying because if people were good one would imagine them being proactive daily on their crusade against evil. Of course if th...

On The Myth Of Morality And Ethics Concerning Law. Laws are for all the little people and by that I mean for all those without power, wealth, or affluence for all of those individuals that have such are largely immune to them. This of course makes perfect sense since laws ars authored, tailored, an...

Now that I am done with articles explaining in depth the myth of human morality and ethics I feel the need to deconstruct everyday moral or ethical human events. On the myth of morality and ethics concerning homelessness. Here in the west we like to pride ourselves with morality, ethics, and compass...

Emotivism: Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes.[1][2] Hence, it is colloquially known as the hurrah/boo theory. Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory ...

Absurdism In philosophy, "the Absurd" refers to the conflict between (1) the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and (2) the human inability to find any. In this context absurd does not mean "logically impossible", but rather "humanly impossible"....

Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no intrinsic meaning or value. With respect to the universe, existential nihilism posits that a single human or even the entire human species is insignificant, without purpose and unlikely to change in the totality of existence. Accordi...

Moral nihilism (also known as ethical nihilism) is the meta-ethical view that nothing is intrinsically moral or immoral. For example, a moral nihilist would say that killing someone, for whatever reason, is neither inherently right nor inherently wrong. Moral nihilists consider morality to be const...

Amoralism: Amorality is an absence of, indifference towards, or disregard for morality.[1][2][3] Morality and amorality in humans and animals is a subject of dispute among scientists and philosophers. If morality is intrinsic to humanity, then amoral human beings either do not exist or are only def...

Moral skepticism (or moral scepticism) is a class of metaethical theories all members of which entail that no one has any moral knowledge. Many moral skeptics also make the stronger, modal, claim that moral knowledge is impossible. Moral skepticism is particularly opposed to moral realism: the view...

Fictionalism is the view in philosophy according to which statements that appear to be descriptions of the world should not be construed as such, but should instead be understood as cases of "make believe", of pretending to treat something as literally true (a "useful fiction")....

Here we'll discuss a whole range of topics such as moral nihilism, moral relativism, moral skepticism, emotivism, amoralism, existential nihilism, absurdism, and moral error theory. My second post after this first initial introductory one I'll begin posting some theories or perceptions on these subj...