Meta-ethics and normative ethics: the difference
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 02-10-14 19:06
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- The background of meta-ethics
- "The Vienna circle," were a group of philosophers in 1920s Venice who developed a theory called "logical positivism."
- They wanted to look at ethical language from a more scientific perspective.
- Ethical statements cannot be verified or falsified as they are neither analytic or synthetic statements.
- Statements have no empirical facts that can be checked to be true or false, so they must be meaningless.
- Logical positivism: The theory that only meaningful philosophical problems can be solved by logical analysis.
- Wittgenstein: It is impossible to even discuss ethical theories at all before we understand the terminology used.
- "Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent."
- "The Vienna circle," were a group of philosophers in 1920s Venice who developed a theory called "logical positivism."
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