Meta-ethics and normative ethics: the difference
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 02-10-14 17:33
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- Meta-ethics and Normative-ethics: the differences
- Normative ethics: The area of ethics that attempts to discuss whether something is right or wrong, God or bad.
- Empirical evidence: Information that is gained using sensory data.
- Cognitive statement: A statement that is subject to being true or false.
- Cognitivists believe that ethical language can have a true meaning.
- Non-cognitive: A statement that is not subject to being true or false.
- For example: "Ouch."
- Non-Cognitivists believe that ethical statements can have true meaning.
- It is difficult for ethical statements to be meaningful as they do not give us any objective (impartial) information that is subject to be true or false.
- Meta-ethics is closely linked to normative ethics and trying to understand the meanings of terms and theories.
- You need meta-ethics in order for normative ethics because you have to understand the words in order to know what's being said and determine whether they are right or wrong.
- Analytic statements: statements that are true by definition
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