Strengths Of Emotivism

Question 1

+ being subjective

Answer 1

• emotivism’s subjective nature allows all opinions to be equally valid.

Question 2

+ culturally aware

Answer 2

• arranged marriage for example could be food or bad depending on the stance of different cultures

Question 3

+ resolves the argument

Answer 3

• it effectively resolves the argument as to why moral disputes can never be resolved.
• it recognises that disputes in ethics are often driven out by feelings rather than facts or reasons.
• this echos the work of Daniel Goleman on emotional intelligence in which he argues that the emotional part of our brain reacts before reasoning kicks in