Evaluating Emotivism

Question 1

Emotivism challenges the foundations of ?

Answer 1

Morality.

Question 2

Emotivists reject any sense that ? is beyond ourselves.

Answer 2

Morality.

Question 3

Moral philosophy can’t lead us to a ?, it’s an interior, individual perspective of the ?

Answer 3

Conclusion.

World.

Question 4

A moral statement might mean nothing more than the ? of ? involved in a person preferring dark chocolate over milk chocolate.

Answer 4

Kind.

Expression.

Question 5

To emotivists, the claims of those who think ? is ?, such as ethical naturalists, are mistaken.

Answer 5

Morality.

Absolute.

Question 6

Emotivists maintain the ideas of a ? ?, such as those that ? ethics advance, are wrong.

Answer 6

Universal morality.

Kantian.

Question 7

In his book, Alasdair MacIntyre isn’t satisfied with ?

Answer 7

Emotivism.

Question 8

First, he questions “? ?” suggesting that the thing that makes moral ? a guide to our actions isn’t much whether they’re factual or ?, but their importance or relevance to the people around them.

Answer 8

Emotive meaning.
Utterances.
Descriptive.

Question 9

Second, MacIntyre argues that ? paints a picture of a thoroughly unpleasant world in which everyone is trying to get ahead of everyone else by ? their views on others.

Answer 9

Stevenson.

Imposing.

Question 10

MacIntyre also argues that ? doesn’t explain how the ? views are formed in the first place.

Answer 10

Stevenson.

Moral.

Question 11

Third, ? is, according to MacIntyre, ? It doesn’t give any help in explaining how we can distinguish the feelings and attitudes that are moral from other feelings and ? we might have.

Answer 11

Emotivism.
Opaque.
Attitudes.