Meta-Ethics
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- Created on: 16-04-13 13:23
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- Meta-Ethics
- Non-Cognitive Theories
- Non Cognitivism - there is no ethical knowledge becuase ethical statements are not statements that can be proved true or false
- Non Cognitivists make a distinction between facts and values
- Emotivism - A.J. Ayer, C.l. Stevenson
- Prescriptivism R.M. Hare
- Key Philosophers
- A.J. Ayer
- G.E. Moore
- R.M. Hare
- David Hume
- C.L. Stevenson
- H.A. Prichard
- W.D. Ross
- Is the analysis of Ethical Language
- GOOD
- BAD
- RIGHT
- WRONG
- Cognitive Theories
- Cognitivism - the view that we can have more than moral knowledge
- People who hold cognitive theories about ethical language believe that ethical statements are about fcats and can be proved true or false.
- Ethical Naturalism - David Hume
- Intuitionism - G.e. Moore, H.A. Prichard, W.D. Ross
- Non-Cognitive Theories
- Cognitivism - the view that we can have more than moral knowledge
- People who hold cognitive theories about ethical language believe that ethical statements are about fcats and can be proved true or false.
- Non Cognitivists make a distinction between facts and values
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