PPT-Emotivism

Michael Lacewing enquiriesalevelphilosophycouk Cognitivism v noncognitivism What are we doing when we make moral judgments Cognitivism moral judgments eg Murder is wrong Aim to describe how the world is. Chapter 2. Subjectivism in Morality. Cultural Relativism = What is right and wrong vary . from culture to culture. ; there is no culture-independent, objective morality.. Ethical Subjectivism =What is right and wrong vary from . about basic moral principles. We can reason about morality if we assume a shared system of values. But we can The nature of moral knowledge. Moral knowledge. Do you know the difference between right and wrong?. Does anybody?. Is moral knowledge even possible?. What is required for knowledge?. There is a lot of controversy over this, but here is the definition we work with in TOK:. “You cannot derive an ought from an is.”. If, in . metaethics. we cannot say what ought to be done, then what is the point of it?. Emotivism is a good . description . of what expressions of morality are…Boo/Hurrah.. Emotivism http://ahp.gatech.edu/declaration_ind_1776.html there are objective moral truths, and the basic moral truths are self-evident to a mature mind. Why must there be indefinable terms? Hume 1 Lecture 3 Ethical Subjectivismand Emotivism ETHICAL SUBJECTIVISMAll moral standards or truthsare dependent only “X is morally acceptable” } “X is good or right” “I (the ut enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. Cognitivism v. non-cognitivism. What are we doing when we. make moral judgments?. Cognitivism: moral judgments, e.g. ‘Murder is wrong’. Aim to describe how the world is. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. Cognitivism. . and moral realism. What are we doing when we. make moral judgments?. Cognitivism: moral judgments, e.g. ‘Murder is wrong’. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. Cognitivism v. non-cognitivism. What are we doing when we. make moral judgments?. Cognitivism: moral judgments, e.g. ‘Murder is wrong’. Aim to describe how the world is. Meta-ethical approaches – Emotivism:. Theory that believes objective moral laws do not exist; . a . non-cognitivist theory; . moral . terms express personal emotional attitudes and not propositions; . So what do moral statements do?. Ayer (. Emotivism). :. Moral judgements express positive or negative emotions. “X is good” = “X hurrah!”. “X is bad” = “X boo!”. Abortion boo!. Abortion hurrah!.