Metaethics

Question 1

What is cognitivism?

Answer 1

Cognitivism is that is it either right or wrong (there is no maybe.

Question 2

What is non-cognitivism?

Answer 2

Non-cognitivism means that morality cannot be true or false (it is subjective).

Question 3

What is moral non-naturalism?

Answer 3

Moral non-naturalism is cognitivist and believes that morality is truth apt (true or false)

Question 4

What is moral naturalism ?

Answer 4

Moral naturalism is a type of moral realism,

moral properties/fact exist they are natural properties of the world.

Question 5

What is moral realist?

Answer 5

Moral properties (goodness and badness) exist in reality and are not natural properties of the world.

Question 6

What is intuitionism, and give a philosopher?

Answer 6

Moral judgements are know intuitively.

Moore was a consequentialist- Moral worth is determined by the good effects that it brings.
Moore concluded that ‘good’ cannot be defined.

Question 7

What is Humes fork?

Answer 7

Hume separates knowledge into two, relations of ideas and matters of fact.

Question 8

What is relations of ideas?

Answer 8

Can be discovered purely by logical thinking and are statements that are either intuitively or demonstratively certain by deduction.

Question 9

What is a matter of fact?

Answer 9

Propersitions about the world, what exists and what is the case there statements are not known deductively as they can be denied without contradiction.

Question 10

What is a Tautoiogie and an example?

Answer 10

A logical truth (analytical truth)
“all bachelors are unmarried men”