Meta-Ethics

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  1. 4. Fallacy that attempts to make conclusions about the way things should be based on the evidence about the way things are. However, there is no theoretical connection between facts about the world and ethical facts.
  2. 9. Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
  3. 11. Key thinker of prescriptivism
  4. 13. Key thinker of Rule Utilitarianism.
  5. 14. Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
  6. 15. Is it good because God commands it, or does God command it because it is good?
  7. 17. Ethical theories which offer systems to answer the question 'how can I be good?' (e.g. Natural Law or Situation Ethics).
  8. 19. Logical fallacy which argues that if something is 'natural' it must be good.
  9. 20. Meta-ethical theory which suggests that ethical judgements are nothing more than emotional responses.
  10. 21. Key thinker of ethical naturalism who followed on from G. E Moore
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  1. 1. A form of cognitivism that holds that moral statements can be known to be true or false immediately through a kind of rational intuition.
  2. 2. Meta-ethical theories which consider goodness NOT to be a natural property of the world but instead exist in the mind alone.
  3. 3. Latin term that is commonly understood to mean “on the first appearance” or “based on the first impression.” According to Ross; a duty that is binding or obligatory, other things being equal.
  4. 5. Meta-ethical theory which suggests that moral judgments are prescriptions and therefore have the logical form of imperatives.
  5. 6. Meta-ethical theories which consider goodness to be a natural property of the world.
  6. 7. The belief that things are right because God commands them to be. In other words, it means that things which are considered wrong or unethical are wrong because they are forbidden by God.
  7. 8. Ethical theories which try to answer the question 'what is goodness?'.
  8. 10. key thinker of intuitionism.
  9. 12. Meta-ethical theories which consider goodness NOT to be knowable.
  10. 16. Naturalist normative ethical theory concerned with maximising happiness.
  11. 18. Meta-ethical theories which consider goodness to be knowable.