Nihilism, Nietzsche and the Doppelganger Problem

Nihilism, Nietzsche and the Doppelganger Problem Was Nietzsche a nihilist? Yes, because, like J. L. Mackie, he was an error-theorist about morality, including the elitist morality to which he himself subscribed. But he was variously a diagnostician, an opponent and a survivor of certain other kinds...

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Main Author: Pigden, Charles R. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2007
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2007, Volume: 10, Issue: 5, Pages: 441-456
Further subjects:B Doppelganger
B J. L. Mackie
B Simon Blackburn
B Moralizing
B Anti-realism
B Crispin Wright
B Nihilism
B Richard Schacht
B Morality
B Sayre-McCord
B Nietzsche
B Error Theory
B Bertrand Russell
B Ronald Dworkin
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