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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.
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.
Derek Parfit (born December 11, 1942, Chengdu, China—died January 1, 2017, London, England) was an English philosopher whose work in normative ethics and metaethics, personal identity, and the theory of practical reason was widely influential in the English -speaking world from the 1980s.
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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.
Introduction Since the publication of G. E. Moore’s Principia Ethica it has become commonplace for philosophers to distinguish between questions in metaethics and those in normative ethics.1 A sympathetic character- ization of the century of self-consciously metaethical research that fol- lowed would emphasize the extraordinary development bo...
Mark Schroeder University of Southern California July 8, 2015. Normative Ethics and Metaethics. For the Routledge Handbook to Metaethics, edited by David Plunkett and Tristram McPherson. By its very name, the field of metaethics is contrasted with another field of inquiry, that of normative ethics.
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1. History. Contemporary metaethics often dates its emergence as a distinct subfield of moral philosophy to the publication of G. E. Moore ’s Principia Ethica in 1903, although many Moorean lines of argument can be found in Henry Sidgwick’ s earlier Methods of Ethics (1874).
