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Abstract. This article aims to bring some of the general underlying questions that hover in the background of meta-ethical discussions into the foreground and then to suggest some answers. An initial question that hovers in the background of discussions in meta-ethics is why we bother thinking about meta-ethical questions in the first place, as ...
2015. Meta-ethics is the area of philosophy in which thinkers explore the language and nature of moral discourse and its relations to other non-moral areas of life. In this introduction to the discipline written explicitly for novices, Leslie Allan outlines the key questions and areas of analysis in contemporary meta-ethics.
Mar 10, 2021 · Metaethics is the study of how we engage in ethics. Thus, the metaethicist has a role more similar to a football commentator rather than to a referee or player. The metaethicist judges and comments on how the ethical game is being played rather than advancing practical arguments, or kicking the football, themselves.
Meta-ethics concerns the meaning of ethical terms or language and the derivation of ethical principles and guidelines. In contrast to meta-ethics, which is often abstract, normative ethics tends to be of special concern to social work because of its immediate relevance to practice.
Jan 11, 2021 · In philosophy, metaethics – sometimes known as analytic ethics – is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties, and ethical statements, attitudes, and judgments. Another way of saying it is that metaethics is reasoning about the presuppositions behind or underneath a normative ethical view or theory.
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 properties exist or not: Moral realism: There are mind-independent, external moral properties and facts – e.g. “murder is wrong” is a moral fact ...
