The part of the essay I enjoyed reading the most was the chain of implications for the ethical nihilist position. This helped to clarify the term for me after reading it. The linking together of ethics and anti-politics is a nice way to think of the two as feeding back into each other or one informing the other.
Towards the end of the essay, “It is a way of living and thinking, a form-of-life in which the two are not separate,” when referring to ethical nihilism. Ethical nihilism as a way of living? Does this mean refusal as a way of life?, a refusal to engage or interact with institutions or certain people or to Do Nothing as Monsieur Dupont put it?
Dan- Maybe this will help: I think morality could be seen as codes of behavior other people impose on us; ethics is, “The flourishing of life, the refinement of desirable ways of life, happy lives.”; politics as different state forms and the legal codes/ laws that follow from them (I wonder if/how using political economy instead of politics would modify the thought). I'm not sure a positive sense of politics or ethics could be supported if one is in agreement with the essay that ethical nihilism is at the core of anarchism. It may only be in the negative sense as skepticism or criticism of the other two positions: universalism and relativism.
Towards the end of the essay, “It is a way of living and thinking, a form-of-life in which the two are not separate,” when referring to ethical nihilism. Ethical nihilism as a way of living? Does this mean refusal as a way of life?, a refusal to engage or interact with institutions or certain people or to Do Nothing as Monsieur Dupont put it?
Dan- Maybe this will help: I think morality could be seen as codes of behavior other people impose on us; ethics is, “The flourishing of life, the refinement of desirable ways of life, happy lives.”; politics as different state forms and the legal codes/ laws that follow from them (I wonder if/how using political economy instead of politics would modify the thought). I'm not sure a positive sense of politics or ethics could be supported if one is in agreement with the essay that ethical nihilism is at the core of anarchism. It may only be in the negative sense as skepticism or criticism of the other two positions: universalism and relativism.