What is Meta-ethics?
Looking at what moral language is about and how it can be justified.
What is Meta-ethics?
Looking at what moral language is about and how it can be justified. Normative ethics looks at what we should do whereas Meta-ethics looks at why.
What does the word ‘Meta’ mean?
To go above and beyond.
What is Cognitivism?
The claim that ethical judgements state facts and so are either objectively true or false
What is non-cognitivism?
The claim that ethical judgements are not statements of fact and so are not objectively true or false.
It implies that moral knowledge is impossible.
What is ethical naturalism?
The view that ethical values stem from facts about the nature of the world or human nature
What is ethical non-naturalism?
The view that moral knowledge is a factual property known by intuition or by God’s commands, for example.
