META ETHICS

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• Meta-ethics
analyses the use of ethical language, such as what is good/bad
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• Cognitivism
ethical statements are meaningful as they can be proved or falsified
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• Non-cognitivism
– ethical language does not give information and thus cannot be proved, instead it merely expresses emotions it wishes of the person using it
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• Teleological
concerned with achieving a desirable end (e.g. Utilitarianism)
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• Deontological
ethics based on duty (e.g. Kant, Christian ethics)
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• Subjective
good is only known to the individual; what is good varies for each individual
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ethical statements are meaningful as they can be proved or falsified

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• Cognitivism

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– ethical language does not give information and thus cannot be proved, instead it merely expresses emotions it wishes of the person using it

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concerned with achieving a desirable end (e.g. Utilitarianism)

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Card 5

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ethics based on duty (e.g. Kant, Christian ethics)

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