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Meta-ethics is the area of philosophy which attempts to answer the question of what goodness actually is, including whether it even exists. Normative ethical theories attempt to devise a system for determining which actions are good and which are bad, e.g., Utilitarianism, Kantian deontology and Virtue ethics.
- Overview – Metaethics
- Realist Theories
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A level metaethics is about what moral judgements – e.g. “murder is wrong” – mean and what (if anything) makes them true or false. The main debate is about whether mind-independent moral propertiesexist or not: 1. Moral realism:There are mind-independent, external moral properties and facts – e.g. “murder is wrong” is a moral fact because the act o...
Realist metaethical theories argue that mind-independent moral properties – such as ‘right’, ‘wrong’, ‘good’, and ‘bad’ – exist. These moral properties give rise to moral facts, such as “murder is wrong”. A realist would say murder has the property of wrongness in the same way grass has the property of greenness. But there is disagreement among rea...
Anti-realist metaethical theories argue that mind independent moral propertiesdo not exist.So, there are no such things as true moral facts. The syllabus looks at 3 anti-realist metaethical theories: 1. Error theory says moral judgements are cognitive statements but properties don’t exist 2. Emotivism says moral judgements are non-cognitive stateme...
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Oct 26, 2016 · Students must be able to apply the content of Normative ethical theories and meta-ethics to the following issues:
Applied Ethics is the study of how we should act in specific areas of our lives; how we should deal with issues like meat-eating, euthanasia or stealing. To use the football analogy, the applied ethicist kicks the philosophical football around just as a footballer kicks the ball on the field.
An important area of metaethics is the ontology of value. Ontology is the study (ology) of being (ōn). It gets at the nature of what makes something wha...
