Amorality

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Amorality

Amoralism is the disbelief in any of the concepts of morality

Morality

Morality has three principal meanings.In its first, descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct which is held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong....
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Amorality and Immorality
Amorality is distinct from immorality, although in common use the terms are often conflated. An amoral person denies the existence of morality, whereas an immoral person believes in the existence of morality but chooses not to comply with it. An immoral person who violates a certain moral code may still believe in the underlying truth of that moral code.

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Amorality and Immorality

Amorality is distinct from immorality, although in common use the terms are often conflated. An amoral person denies the existence of morality, whereas an immoral person believes in the existence of morality but chooses not to comply with it. An immoral person who violates a certain moral code may still believe in the underlying truth of that moral code. For example, a thief may not deny that stealing is immoral, but may attempt to deflect the blame or offer excuses in order to justify their actions.

Amoralist philosophers

The problem of amoralism was present already to Socrates

Socrates

Socrates was a Classical Greece Philosophy. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known only through the classical accounts of his students....
, brought up by Thrasymachus

Thrasymachus

Thrasymachus was a sophist of Ancient Greece best known as a character in Plato's Republic ....
and Callicles

Callicles

Callicles is a character in Plato?s Dialogue#Platonic_dialogues Gorgias . He is an Athens citizen, who is a student of the sophist Gorgias....
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Mandeville

Mandeville

Mandeville may refer to:...
and Machiavelli brought up amoralism in the realm of political theory.

Amoralist egoism was proposed by Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse Fran?ois de Sade, Marquis de Sade was a France aristocrat, revolutionary and novelist. His novels were philosophical novel and sadomasochistic, exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia....
and Max Stirner

Max Stirner

Johann Kaspar Schmidt , better known as Max Stirner , was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism....
. De Sade's philosophy is hedonistic and materialistic, while Stirner was an anarchist. De Sade was the first philosopher to claim that virtues lead to failure, vices to happiness and success. Modern amoralist see this as extreme literary fiction, and will usually claim, that neither doing good nor doing bad are a guarantee for success.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th century philosophy Germans philosophy and classical philology. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism....
critizised morality and moral philosophers and argued for a changing of all values, however not the destruction of all values.

Existentialist

Existentialism

Existentialism is a term that has been applied to the work of a number of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, took the human subject — not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual and his or her conditions of existence — as a starting point...
philosophers often also need to confront the possibility that their philosophies are amoralist, because of claims like Sartre's, that we invent meaning.

Amorality

Amorality and Immorality

Amoralist philosophers

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