Meta Ethics

Question 1

Define Meta-ethics

Answer 1

Fundamental questions about the meaning of ethics and the maning of god and bad, right and wrong.

Question 2

Moral realism

Answer 2

the beile that right and wrong do not objectively exist independately from the mind - they are real properties

Question 3

Cognitivism

Answer 3

The belief that moral staements are subject to being either true or false - they are meaningful.

Question 4

non-cognitivism

Answer 4

The belief that moral statement are not subject to true or falsity - meaningless

Question 5

Naturalism

Answer 5

moral values can be correctly defined by observation of the natural world

Question 6

intuitionism

Answer 6

Moral truth are indefinable and self-evident. The ‘good’ cannot be defined, it s intuitively known

Question 7

Emotivism

Answer 7

moral statements are not statements of fact, but indicators of emotinal states

Question 8

naturalist fallacy

Answer 8

criticm of naturalism that we cannot assume that jusr because something is natural it must be good.

Question 9

What is good accoridng to Naturalism?

Answer 9

Good is what is natural. known by looking at nature.

Question 10

What is good according to intuitionism

Answer 10

Good is a simple notion that is known by intuition.