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Normative ethics makes moral claims in its own right. Metaethics does not do this, yet, despite this, it is morally engaged. For among its central questions are the questions whether any moral claims are true, and whether it is rational to commit oneself to acting morally.
Ethicists in the normative tradition seem to believe that moral knowledge is possible. Yet there is widespread disagreement about what the fundamental principle of morality is.
The first sort of ethical inquiry is most commonly called norma- tive ethics and is held to consist in the investigation into what actions are losopher is metaethics, normative con- cerns being better left to such as jour- nalists, politicians, and preachers.
there is a differencebetween doing ‘meta-ethics’ and doing ‘norma-tive’ or practical ethics” (2003, 121 n. 44). Ronald Dworkin also finds error in much apparently metaethical theorizing, arguing that it rests on mistaking substantive ethical claims to be metaphysical or “philo-sophical” (1996, 100).
Derek Parfit. Related Topics: good-reasons theory. cognitivism. noncognitivism. moral realism. moral sense. metaethics, the subdiscipline of ethics concerned with the nature of ethical theories and moral judgments. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.) A brief treatment of metaethics follows.
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Mar 4, 2021 · Roughly, metanormative inquiry aims to understand actual normative and evaluative thought and talk, and what (if anything) it is distinctively about, while the conceptual ethics of normativity engages in normative or evaluative reflection on normative and evaluative thought and talk.
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This chapter looks at normative ethical theory in the twentieth century, along with Utilitarianism and virtues, Elizabeth Anscombe’s views about virtue ethics, and John McDowell’s identification of virtue with perceptual knowledge.
