‘Everyone knows what ‘good’ is’ Discuss essay plan
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‘Everyone knows what ‘good’ is’ Discuss
Intro
- Metaethics: branch of ethics that aims to determine the usefulness of ethical language
- Cognotivists believes that ethical language is meaningful, thus everyone should know what good is
- Non-cognotivists believe that ethical language is subjective, thus not everyone can know what good is
Paragraph 1 : everyone knows what good is via Naturalism
- Cognitivist theory
- Ethical statements statements can be verified/falsified & same as non-ethical statements
- Factual statements and evidence from the natural world deduce ethical conclusions
- E.g. abortion is wrong because it ends life of a foetus
- Bradley: from learning our place in society, we can know what good is
Paragraph 2: critique of Naturalism using Hume
- You cannot deduce an ‘ought’ from an is just as naturalism doees when stating what is right or wrong by looking at examples from the natural world
Paragraph 3: Building on Hume’s view using G.E. Moore on intuitionism
- G.E. Moore states that this commits the naturalistic fallacy
- Opened ended question of what good is just as describing the colour yellow
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