Deutsch is worried about the implications of moral nihilism being taken too seriously.

If this argument holds, hard determinists are restricted to moral nihilism.

For the philosophical position rejecting all moral claims, see moral nihilism.

An alternative scholarly perspective is that moral nihilism is a morality in itself.

The media are trumpeting religious intolerance, moral nihilism and anti-culture before our very eyes.

Richard Joyce (2001) argues for this form of moral nihilism under the name "fictionalism."

There are two important forms of moral nihilism: Error theory and Expressivism p. 292.

According to Alexander Rosenberg, naturalists, in general, have to accept moral nihilism.

Insofar as only true statements can be known, moral nihilism implies moral skepticism.

One form of moral nihilism is expressivism.

The position is called moral nihilism and can lead to amoralism, if nonrational reasons for ultimate goals are dismissed.

Like moral nihilism itself, however, error theory comes in more than one form: Global falsity and Presupposition failure.

Another criticism is ethical, claiming that the Calvinist view of predestination inevitably leads into moral nihilism.

Practically speaking, such critics will argue that meta-ethical relativism may amount to Moral nihilism, or else incoherence.

Moral universalism is opposed to moral nihilism and moral relativism.

Cooper writes, "In the widest sense of the word 'morality', moral nihilism is a morality."

Closer to being an example of moral nihilism is Thrasymachus, as portrayed in Plato's Republic.

Criticisms of moral nihilism come primarily from moral realists, who argue that there are positive moral truths.

Lamm argues that Schneerson's statements could be misinterpreted to create a "distortion" leading to "moral nihilism."

Approaches such as ethical egoism, moral relativism, moral skepticism, and moral nihilism are also considered.

Aided and abetted by the moral nihilism of academic postmodernism, these people have surrendered to the new fascists of the Arab world.

Nietzsche believed this "death" had already started to undermine the foundations of morality and would lead to moral relativism and moral nihilism.

Moral nihilism (amoralism)

Moral nihilism, also known as ethical nihilism, is the meta-ethical view that nothing is morally preferable to anything else.

The philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli is sometimes presented as a model of moral nihilism, but this is at best ambiguous.