Meta Keywords

Question 1

Ethical Naturalism

Answer 1

Morality is defined by facts about nature or human nature

Question 2

Ethical non-cognitivism

Answer 2

The view that morality is non-cognitive, has nothing to do with facts, but reduces instead to ‘emotional ejaculations’ or to universalizable prescriptions about moral behaviour.

Question 3

Neo-Naturalism

Answer 3

New naturalism a form of neutralism which argues that morality does have a factual content: ‘good is what leads to the flourishing of human beings or the flourishing of the entire environment.

Question 4

Normative Ethics

Answer 4

First-order ethical questions about how we should behave what ethical norms we should follow

Question 5

Ethical non-naturalism

Answer 5

The meta-ethical view that moral knowledge is a factual property known by intuition or by Gods commands for example.

Question 6

Religious ethics

Answer 6

The approach to ethical which derives moral values from God/ a divine realm: for example, Divine command theory

Question 7

second-order questions

Answer 7

Meta-ethical questions about the nature and purpose of morality are called second order ethical questions. In ethics second order question