Emotivism Flashcards
(10 cards)
What’s emotivism built on
Humes fork
Analytic or synthetic language
What’s an analytic statement
Statement true by definition
What’s a synthetic statement
Verifieable by sense experience
What’s Hume say ab moral statements
They not analytic or synthetic
Rather just an expression of emotion
What are moral statement (Hume)
They are subjectively meaningful
Eg meaningful to me
What’s emotivists say about moral laws
They don’t exist
Can’t be empirically tested so meaningless
Do emotivists believe in right and wrong
No it doesn’t exist according to them
What’s Ayer say
Moral statements have no factual basis, so aren’t factual
Functions of ethical statements
Express feelings
Arouse feelings
Stimulate action
Explain boo/hurrah theory
Moral statements r just exclamations
They js make u go boo or hurrah
