A Map of the Moral World: New Ideas in Modal Ontology, Metaethics, and on the Nature of Evil

I begin by creating an original modal ontology that brings the modal operators of necessity and possibility together. I then define a simulation as a real possibility that is not necessarily true. This new framework expands on existing philosophical knowledge, and engages with classical theories. For example, Heidegger offers a theory of inauthenticity where we get lost in the simulations of the ‘they,’ which limits what we normally accept as possible. Dasein offers another possibility, where we are the possible (not necessary) being that makes our possibilities possible. Authenticity is taking a stand on our possibilities making them uniquely our own.
Next, metaethics offers many possibilities for different ontologies with their own standards of truth that any ethical statement may occupy. A realist assumption is invoked that sees the different ways of obtaining ethical information as self-correcting feedback, reflective equilibrium, or hermeneutic circles.
In the third section, I propose that evil is what happens when we may know what is right but do what is wrong anyway. Self-deception is thinking the good is whatever we want to say it is. I portray Nietzsche as an example of an evil corrupt theory, then use him as a grand theory of evil for analyzing the political spectrum of the postmodern culture wars.