Metaethics Overview
- Created by: Elena.S
- Created on: 09-03-17 10:51
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- METAETHICS
- Cognitivism - ethical views describe the world around us; ethical statements are propositions which are true or false
- Moral Realism - morals are objectively real things that exist in the world
- Naturalism - ethical concepts can be understood and defined in non-ethical terms; a form of reductionism referring to certain objective features in the world
- Example: utilitarianism; the morally good thing is that which brings the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people
- Non-naturalism - ethical statements can't be understood and defined in non-ethical terms; moral properties can unique and "in the air"
- Intuitionism - the morally good thing is known intuitively
- Consequentialist intuitionism - the morally good thing is determined through the consequences
- Deontological intuitionism - the morally good thing is known through duties originating from intuition
- Intuitionism - the morally good thing is known intuitively
- Naturalism - ethical concepts can be understood and defined in non-ethical terms; a form of reductionism referring to certain objective features in the world
- Moral Anti-Realism - morals aren't objectively real things that don't exist in the world; what we perceive is subjective and mind-dependent
- Error Theory - moral language describes the world but it is always wrong due systematic mistakes because moral properties don't exist
- Moral Realism - morals are objectively real things that exist in the world
- Non-Cognitivism - ethical views don't describe the world around us; ethical statements are attitudes held which aren't true or false
- Emotivism - moral judgements express attitudes and feelings of approval or disapproval
- Prescriptivism - moral judgements are descriptive and prescriptive; moral statements are a way of instructing someone rather than referring to objectively real properties
- Cognitivism - ethical views describe the world around us; ethical statements are propositions which are true or false
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