Introduction

Question 1

whats meta ethics?

Answer 1

examines the issie of what we mean when we say that a thing or an action is good, bad, right, wrong, moral or immoral

Question 2

problem with meta ethics?

Answer 2

-its a problem because people think good is definable
-if it isn’t NML, SE, VE are going to be unhappy

Question 3

David Hume

Answer 3

-Scottish Philosopher known for Empiricism (view that all concepts originate in experience)
and Skepticism (a denial not of belief, but of certainty of that which is unobserved)

Question 4

a priori

Answer 4

that means its not based on our experience but relies on reason alone.

Question 5

a posteriori

Answer 5

argument based on the evidence of our observations of the world.