8. Meta ethics: Emotivism in general
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 25-06-17 22:18
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- 8. Emotivism in general
- Outline of theory
- Moral
- Good/bad in your opinion/expressing an emotion
- Ideas from environment
- Family
- Ethical statements can not be proven true or false
- non-cognitive
- Moral
- Strengths
- Allows complete freedom of action
- Part of being human is to express emotions in moral situations
- Everyone can understand theory and apply it
- Everyone's opinions are equally valid
- Weaknesses
- Ethics based on attitudes, upbringing and feelings
- Lead emotivism to being 'simply subjectivism'
- James Rachels
- Points out that moral judgements appeal to reasoning not just expressions of feelings
- Ethics based on attitudes, upbringing and feelings
- Outline of theory
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