Analytics Quote by Torbjorn Tannsjo

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

“What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary questions of…

— Hannah Arendt

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of…

— Martin Heidegger

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff

Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a…

— John Marmysz

Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life,…

— Ray Brassier

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.

— Chicken John

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

— Ayn Rand

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

— John Christopher

We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy…

— Catherine Wilson