Moral Error Theory

Stirner's radical egoism rejects God, the state, humanity and every moral ideal that claims a hold over the individual. Published in 1844, it is the classic case for amoralism, in Steven T. Byington's translation.

Max Stirner

A doctoral study of moral error theory, the view that moral claims are never true. It explains Mackie's original argument, tests the versions of Joyce and Olson, and asks what we should do with morality if the error theorist is right.

Emma Beckman

Moral nihilism says value judgments can never be justified. This thesis takes the claim seriously and answers it with pragmatism, showing how moral beliefs can be reasonable without objective moral facts behind them.

J.P. Weismuller