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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. For further discussion, see ethics: Metaethics. Major metaethical theories include naturalism, nonnaturalism (or intuitionism), emotivism, and ...
Feb 26, 2020 · Metaethics can be described as the philosophical study of the nature of moral judgment. It is concerned with such questions as: Do moral judgments express beliefs or rather desires and inclinations? Are moral judgments apt to be assessed in terms of truth and falsity? Do moral sentences have factual meaning?
Jul 12, 2022 · 1. The Target Explanandum. 1.1 Concept vs. World. 1.2 The Fundamental Normative Property. 2. Are There Any Normative Facts At All? – Error Theory. 2.1 Formulating Error Theory. 2.2 The Argument from Queerness. 2.2.1 What feature of normativity is queer? 2.2.2 What does queerness consist in?
Notes to Metaethics. 1. Metaethical issues were central to both Hume and Kant, although they predictably disagreed; they also figured prominently in Plato’s defense of the value of justice and Aristotle’s argument that virtue and vice are in some way up to us.
Article Summary. A tripartite distinction is often drawn in moral philosophy between (i) applied ethics, (ii) normative ethical theory, and (iii) metaethics. Applied ethics seeks answers to moral questions about specific practices like abortion, euthanasia and business, while normative ethics seeks abstract moral principles that apply generally.
Applied ethics is an area of moral philosophy that focuses on concrete moral issues, including such matters as abortion, capital punishment, civil disobedience, drug use, family responsibilities, and professional ethics. This article defends a variety of positions in both normative moral theory and metaethics.
Metaethics explores, for example, where moral values originate, what it means to say something is right or good, whether there are any objective moral facts, whether morality is (culturally) relative, and whether there is a psychological basis for moral practices and value judgements.
