Doesn’t anyone read Nietzsche any more? There is no rational basis for morality. To search for such a thing is no different from postulating a god. As for the pie—in a world without god, it belongs to the person who takes it. Weaklings (like me) don’t like this, so we develop metaethics (including the form based on “reason”).
It seems to me that moral non-realism has come a long way since Nietzsche. I am not sure whether Nietzsche has much substance to add to today’s metaethics discourse, though admittedly I’ve only read one of his books. It was The Genealogy of Morals, which I found entertaining and thought-provoking, but unhelpful to the moral realism vs. non-realism debate.
Doesn’t anyone read Nietzsche any more? There is no rational basis for morality. To search for such a thing is no different from postulating a god. As for the pie—in a world without god, it belongs to the person who takes it. Weaklings (like me) don’t like this, so we develop metaethics (including the form based on “reason”).
It seems to me that moral non-realism has come a long way since Nietzsche. I am not sure whether Nietzsche has much substance to add to today’s metaethics discourse, though admittedly I’ve only read one of his books. It was The Genealogy of Morals, which I found entertaining and thought-provoking, but unhelpful to the moral realism vs. non-realism debate.