EMOTIVISM

Question 1

What is Emotivism

Answer 1

• it contends that moral judgements only express positive or negative feelings

Question 2

Discuss Emotivism and Logical Positivism. Any truth can either be ______ and _____.

Answer 2

• any genuine truth claim can be emperical (based on sense or experience) or analytic (meaning of the words)

Question 3

Emotivism sees moral judgement as ___

Answer 3

expression of feeling

Question 4

Difference between subjectivism and emotivism

Answer 4

Emotivism holds that moral judgements do not assert truth about feelings while Subjectivism claim that feelings can be true or false.

Question 5

Moral reasoning and Emotivism in solving moral disputes

Answer 5

• we need to convince others by making them feel differently about the actions we are dealing with.

Question 6

Why Emotivism?

Answer 6

• it explains morality simpler
• explains more of the facts about morality
• explains what we mean by good and bad