meta ethics Flashcards
moral realism
good and bad exists in reality
moral anti-realism
good and bad do not exist in reality
naturalism
view that goodness is something real in the natural world
what did moore argue goodness is comparable to
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humes is-ought gap
there is a gap between the way things are then jumps to a conclusion with no apparent justification
philppa foot
intuitionism
we know what is good/bad right/ wrong through intuition, without any process of reasoning
mackie against intutionism
its not intuition its social condition
humes theory of motiviation
reason cannot create moral judgment
emotivism
its emotion
ayers verification principle
a statement is only meaningful if it is either analytic or empricially verifiable through experience
humes fork
two types of judgments
1. synthetic judgments
2. analytic judgments
nihilism
view that because there is no right or wrong morality is pointless
what does prichard argue one should distinguish between
distinguish between moral obligation vs reality