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The same goes for a moral action, it doesn't change sign from positive to negative even if there's a net bad. The very reason why one hss to overcompensate (save 5) for a bad deed (murder 1) is that moral valence is immutable: negative stays negative and positive stays positive. The claim murder is morally justifiable doesn't equate to murder ...
Mar 19, 2015 · An immoralist does not simply ignore morality, or deny its right to our compliance, but claims that morality is a bad thing that should be rejected. Immoralism therefore seems to be defensible only from the viewpoint of a morality, which makes it appear to be as self-refuting as another notorious Nietzschean claim, that truths are illusions.
By examining the central thesis of Nietzsche's immoralism and elucidating many of his key ideas, e.g. ‘the will to power’, ‘master–slave morality’ and the ‘overman’ (superman), Foot argues that although Nietzsche's immoralism should be given serious consideration, the emphatic conclusion is that, in the last analysis, no part of his attack on morality is convincing.
In conclusion, immoralism and moralism offer contrasting views on ethics and morality. Immoralism emphasizes personal autonomy and freedom, while moralism prioritizes adherence to objective moral principles. The debate between these two perspectives raises important questions about the nature of morality and its impact on human behavior.
Morality, as we have seen, involves a commitment to “life-denying” values: the earthly reality of human existence, and the suffering and pain it involves, is given a fundamentally negative evaluation, so that the only things that have a positive value are the promise of an afterlife in another world (in the religious iteration of the worldview), and the absence of suffering (in the secular ...
Immoralism is defined primarily, then, against a particular kind of rationalism in favor of a certain way of grounding morality in instinct rather than reason. To be a moralist is first and foremost to be a certain kind of rationalist. But immoralism is not for that reason irrationalism. It is opposed only to the “fanaticism” in which ...
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Nov 10, 2009 · I love much of Nietzsche’s negative criticism, but I struggle to see how his positive project can be taken seriously. The question of “what comes next” is something that always left me perplexed and usually unsatisfied. Nietzsche saw that the passing of Christendom meant that there can be no return to pagan naivete.
