10. Meta ethics: Emotivism: C. L. Stevenson
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- Created on: 25-06-17 22:44
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- 10. Emotivism: C. L. Stevenson
- Outline:
- Interested in how moral statements are used and what results they are intended to produce
- How many people actually use moral statements in everyday conversation?
- Strengths
- Stevenson's main contribution to ethics, is his view that the word 'good' and other ethical predicates are complex words with a variety of uses
- This is an important contrast to Intuitionism and Ayer, who failed to use it
- Stevenson addressed failure of A. J. Ayer to consider in detail way ethical statements can motivate people
- Stevenson produces a good assessment of what motivates us ethically
- Stevenson exposed one problem with ethical naturalism
- To convert ethical terms into non-ethical terms, removes or undermines the persuasive part of them.
- James Rachels has argued that Stevenson's theory is one of the most advanced and plausible versions of ethical subjectivism
- Stevenson's main contribution to ethics, is his view that the word 'good' and other ethical predicates are complex words with a variety of uses
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