the use of ethical language- how different scholars have understood terms such as 'good', 'bad', 'right', and 'wrong', e.g. Michael Sloat said 'good' and 'bad' should rather be 'admirable' and 'deplorable'
basic understanding of how meta-ethics differs from normative ethics- normative ethics decide which things are good and bad and gives us a guide to moral behaviour, e.g. Natural Law, Utilitarianism and Kantian, whereas meta-ethics is about normative ethics and tries to make sense of the terms and concepts used
basic knowledge of emotivism, intuitionism and prescriptivism-
emotivism- a theory which says that moral statements are just expressions of feelings
intuitionism- a theory that moral truths are known by intuition
prescriptivism- a theory that ethical statements have an intrinsic sense so other people should agree with the statement and follow it
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