Single Idea 18324

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism]

Full Idea

An insight formulated by me: that there are no moral facts whatever. Moral judgement has this in common with religious judgement that it believes in realities which do not exist.

Gist of Idea

There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 6.1)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.55


A Reaction

Not only a slogan for non-cognitivism, but also a clear statement of the error theory about morality, a century before John Mackie.