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Nov 6, 2015 · 1. What Is Meta-ethics? Meta-ethics is a major field of enquiry in philosophy. The ‘meta’ in ‘meta-ethics’ signifies ‘above’. Meta-ethics is the attempt to answer questions about ethics. Philosophers working in this area are not so much concerned with what people or acts in particular are ethical.
Oct 25, 2016 · Metaethics: Crash Course Philosophy #32 - YouTube. CrashCourse. 15.6M subscribers. Subscribed. 36K. 2.1M views 7 years ago Philosophy. We begin our unit on ethics with a look at metaethics.
Notes to Metaethics. 1. Metaethical issues were central to both Hume and Kant, although they predictably disagreed; they also figured prominently in Plato’s defense of the value of justice and Aristotle’s argument that virtue and vice are in some way up to us. Two key issues are whether (and if so, in what sense) “ought” implies “can ...
