Meta-ethics

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Ethics Mind Map on Meta-ethics, created by pkayy11 on 10/03/2014.
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Meta-ethics
  1. Examines the meaning of ethical language
    1. 20th century - occupied almost totally (in 'analytic' anglophone philosophy) with analysis of language → dominated ethical discussion of the detriment of practical questions
      1. Cognitivists - ethical language is meaningful, objective, can be true or false and is factual
        1. Non-cognitivists - ethical language is non-descriptive, meaningless, subjective and cannot be true or false
          1. F.H. Bradley: Ethical Naturalism (Cognitivists)
            1. Ethical statements are the same as non-ethical statements - factual and can be verified or falsified by looking at evidence e.g. Martin Luther was a good man → led the African-Americans out of racial segregation
              1. Example: 'rough' or 'smooth' ≈ 'good' or 'bad'
              2. Ethical statements can be verified through empirical observation
                1. Ethical statements can be drawn from non-ethical, natural statements e.g. abortion ends the life of a foetus therefore abortion is wrong
                  1. We observe the world around us and create moral theories to fit our observations
                    1. Evaluation
                      1. - G.E. Moore - 'naturalistic fallacy' → cannot claim that moral statements can be verified or falsified using evidence - based his argument on Hume's is-ought (fact-moral judgement)
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