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
- Hitler was the leader of the Nazis
- 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
- Look at evidence so I can test the veracity (truth) of the statement
- Ethical statements and non-ethical statements are the same
- 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
- Advocates Ethical Naturalism
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