basics Flashcards
intuitionism
-argues that morality is objective and cognitive
analytical statement
-true by definition
-eg statements of maths n logic
synthetic statement
-true by evidence
-determined by checking if they exist
-eg history + ordinary life
main emotivists scholars
-aj ayer ()
-hume ()-is/ought
-barnes- boo/hurray
-cl stevens
critics of emotivism
-Peter vardy
-James Rachel
main naturalists scholars
-fh braddeley
-aquinas (theological)
-RB Perry (hedonistic)
critics of naturalism
-GE Moore
main intuitionist scholars
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cognitivist
-moral statements describe the world and everyone can have moral knowledge
-proved true or false
-moral realist pov
-objective facts that are good or bad independently of us
naturalism
- ## goodness is a natural property – a feature of the physical world