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Ethics reading recommendations for amateur philosophers and new ethical skeptics

**Question**: What articles, books, or philosophers would you recommend for moral nihilists or skeptics? Specifically to both challenge or strengthen the position.

**Background**: I have a degree in a philosophy that was heavy on analytic philosophy, but have done a fair amount of reading in continental philosophy. I also organize a discussion group with friends and friends of friends for discussing philosophical topics. The participants are mostly people with philosophical sensitivity, but not philosophy training.

**The situation**: A common path I've seen in this group is: first, people who haven't had skepticism about ethical topics will discover that it's appropriate and fun to analyze and reject some ethical arguments. Next, this ethical skepticism opens the door to subjectivism or towards moral nihilism. Then, either people remain stuck in subjectivism or in moral nihilism because those are very difficult projects, or slowly and surely find some moral arguments convincing. 

This seems like a common path, and a desirable path toward ethical and philosophical maturity.

**The problem**: How can I assist my fellow philosophers in exploring, challenging, and supporting moral nihilism or subjectivism? To be clear, I don't mind if nihilism is a lasting position, I simply don't have the resources to help with this exploration. I'm not remotely equipped to answer the question, "Why be ethical" for those who are caught up in the gravity of that question. I have answers that are convincing to me, but problems of is-ought, objective morality, and moral intuitions are challenging and I don't want to shortcut or cover up those issues. What I need is recommendations of philosophers smarter than me to become interlocutors for folks in my discussion groups.

**Conclusion**: Developing philosophical skills is as much about becoming comfortable with hard, seemingly intractable problems as it is about discovering and discarding bad arguments. I want to equip my friends with the best moves and ideas available.
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*The Elements of Moral Philosophy* by Rachels has a few chapters on relativism, as does *Morality: An Introduction to Ethics* by Williams. If you want to "equip your friends with the best moves and ideas available," though, you're going to have to read stuff that's probably way more advanced than amateurs are typically going to want to engage with, like Brink's *Moral Realism and The Foundation of Ethics*, Cuneo's *The Normative Web*, Enoch's *Taking Morality Seriously*, and so on.