Meta ethics- key terms
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- Created on: 13-04-16 20:18
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- Meta Ethics Key Terms
- Intuitionism- Moral truths are known by intuition
- Meta ethics- Analysis of ethical language
- Normative Ethics- describe moral codes of behaviour rules by which we make moral decisions
- Naturalism/cognitivist- moral values can be derived from sense experience
- Non-naturalism/ non-cognitivist- ethical statements cannot be derived from sense
- Naturalistic fallacy-goodness cannot be defined
- prescriptivism- ethical statements have intrinsic sense so other people should agree and follow it
- Emotivism- moral statements are expressions of feeling
- Synthetic-true and false can be tested by using experience
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- Analytic- statements which are true by definition
- Logical positivism- only things which can betested are meaningful
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