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  1. human.libretexts.org › Bookshelves › Philosophy6: Metaethical Theories - Humanities LibreTexts

    • Metaethics: Introduction. The prefix “meta” is derived from the Greek for “beyond”. Metaethics is therefore a form of study that is beyond the topics considered in normative or applied ethics.
    • The Value of Metaethics. A former colleague once suggested that Metaethics was entirely and frustratingly pointless — academia for academia’s sake, she thought.
    • Cognitivism versus Non-Cognitivism. Key to the successful study of Metaethics is understanding the various key terminological distinctions that make up the “metaethical map”.
    • Realism versus Anti-Realism. The second key fork in the road that separates metaethical theories is the choice between Moral Realism and Moral Anti-Realism (as with Cognitivism, the “Moral” prefix is assumed from hereon).

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  3. plato.stanford.edu › entries › metaethicsMetaethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Jan 23, 2007 · Metaethics. First published Tue Jan 23, 2007; substantive revision Tue Jan 24, 2023. Metaethics is the attempt to understand the metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological, presuppositions and commitments of moral thought, talk, and practice.

  4. www.sscnet.ucla.edu › anthro › facultyVarying versions of moral relativism: the philosophy and ...

    The term ‘moral relativism’ is associated with a variety of very different concepts, some of which function mainly to oppose the view. Schematically, we intend to use the term as follows: Moral relativism consists of three components. First, it holds that descriptive, prescriptive, or meta-ethical aspects of prescriptive

  5. users.wfu.edu › millerc › RelativismMoral Relativism and Moral Psychology - Wake Forest University

    As stated, meta-ethical moral relativism is a metaphysical view about the existence and nature of moral facts and properties, rather than being first and foremost a semantic view about moral language or a psychological view about moral thought (I defend this approach to formulating moral relativism at length in Miller, forthcoming).

  6. plato.stanford.edu › entries › moral-relativismMoral Relativism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Feb 19, 2004 · Metaethical Moral Relativism ( MMR ). The truth or falsity of moral judgments, or their justification, is not absolute or universal, but is relative to the traditions, convictions, or practices of a group of persons.

  7. dspace.mit.edu › bitstream › handleMoral Relativism 1. Introduction - Massachusetts Institute of ...

    Meta-ethics: addresses questions about first-order (normative) ethical judgments, e.g., about the nature of morality; the meaning of moral talk; whether morality is absolute or relative; whether moral judgments can be true or false (objective) or merely subjective, how we can have knowledge of moral truth. 2.

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  9. leeds-faculty.colorado.edu › mcgrawp › PDFThe psychology of meta-ethics: Exploring objectivism

    Moreover, psychological research that has specifically focused on meta-ethics, has not addressed questions concerning ethical objectivism. Instead, it has focused on the distinction between ethical universalism and ethical relativism – i.e., whether individ-uals treat their ethical beliefs as applying to all people, and all cultures (Nichols &