Meta Ethics- Naturalism
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- Created on: 24-04-19 18:28
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- Meta-Ethics- Naturalism
- Criticisms
- Naturalistic Fallacy- Hume and G.E Moore "you can't move from an ought to an is"
- Hume's fork- argued statements about the world were analytical or synthetic
- Moral statements are neither as they derive from emotion thus, they are subjective
- But Hume's fork is a fallacy in itself: as we can make an ought (value), an is (fact).
- Searle argued that if someone is meant to pay another, then they ought to pay
- Strengths
- We make observations through judgement
- It is absolute therefore meaning it is easy to follow
- Summary
- We can see "good " in the world around us
- Cognitivist- we can have knowledge of ethics
- Different to emotivism and intuitionism as it claims ethical statements can be seen in reality
- Moral Facts exist as they are observable features of an action
- Theories
- Natural Law
- Aquinas argued that goodness is a natural feature of actions defined by the telos we have as rational beings
- Kantian Ethics
- Goodness exists as a priori truth (knowledge through reason and logic alone)
- Utilitarianism
- Pain and pleasure can be observed and experienced as a posteriori truth
- Natural Law
- Criticisms
- Analytical- a bachelor is an unmarried man
- Synthetic- can be true or false- Mr Walmsley doesn't like cheese
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