2. Meta Ethics: Ethical Naturalism (outline of theory)

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  • Created on: 25-06-17 16:22
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  • 2. Ethical Naturalism
    • Outline
      • Ethical statements and non-ethical statements are the same
        • Facts about the world
        • E.g.
          • Hitler was the leader of the Nazis
            • non-ethical - fact
          • Hitler was a bad man
            • ethical fact - using evidence, consequences of actions, personal attributes
        • Both these kinds of statements can be proven true or false using evidence
          • Cognitive
        • Factual
        • Verified (proven true) or falsified (proven false)
        • Moral issue, e.g. euthanasia, is right or wrong
          • Look at evidence so I can test the veracity (truth) of the statement
            • Therefore, the argument that euthanasia ends suffering of an individual = morally right
    • F. H. Bradley
      • Advocates Ethical Naturalism
        • Belief that statement could only be factual and have meaning if it can be verified empirically like literal statements/proportions
      • 1. Ethical sentences express propositions
      • 2. Some such propositions are true
      • 3. Those propositions are made true by objective features if the world, independent of human opinion
      • Meta-ethical statements can be defined in scientific terms
        • This Naturalism the philosophical belief that everything arises from natural properties and causes

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