Naturalism- Meta Ethics


	Naturalism- Meta Ethics
	Advantages Simple rules that can be followed by everyone (absolute) Supports the use of reason and emotion, so it is open to everyone, religious or not Secondary precepts allow enough flexibility to accommodate different cultures Primary precepts are common to society, thus suggesting it is universal Focuses on character of human beings and how we flourish (eudaimonia)	Disadvantages Hume's Law- Can't go from an is (fact) to an ought(reason), criticises Naturalistic fallacy Suggests we are all similar and morals are essentially non-subjective as they are fixed (absolute) and not relative Suggests we are all fixed in our nature which isn't correct Hard to apply to complex situations Too focused on reason and fails to acknowledge that we can't be trusted to make a emotionally empty decision which is moral- seen in The Fall Interpreted rigidly by RCC and can't apply to individual moral problems
	Evaluation It provides a system of evaluating statements and moral acts which can be used alongside positivist ideology.

Simple rules that can be followed by everyone (absolute)
Supports the use of reason and emotion, so it is open to everyone, religious or not
Secondary precepts allow enough flexibility to accommodate different cultures
Primary precepts are common to society, thus suggesting it is universal
Focuses on character of human beings and how we flourish (eudaimonia)

Hume's Law- Can't go from an is (fact) to an ought(reason), criticises Naturalistic fallacy
Suggests we are all similar and morals are essentially non-subjective as they are fixed (absolute) and not relative
Suggests we are all fixed in our nature which isn't correct
Hard to apply to complex situations
Too focused on reason and fails to acknowledge that we can't be trusted to make a emotionally empty decision which is moral- seen in The Fall
Interpreted rigidly by RCC and can't apply to individual moral problems

It provides a system of evaluating statements and moral acts which can be used alongside positivist ideology.

Get Revising