2007年1月23日 · Metaethics is the attempt to understand the metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological, presuppositions and commitments of moral thought, talk, and practice.

In metaphilosophy and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, ground, and meaning of moral judgment, ethical belief, or values.

Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is.

Major metaethical theories include naturalism, nonnaturalism (or intuitionism), emotivism, and prescriptivism. Naturalists and nonnaturalists agree that moral language is cognitive—i.e., that moral claims can be known to be true or false. They disagree, however, on …

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Metaethical issues were central to both Hume and Kant, although they predictably disagreed; they also figured prominently in Plato’s defense of the value of justice and Aristotle’s argument that virtue and vice are in some way up to us.

2020年2月26日 · Metaethics can be described as the philosophical study of the nature of moral judgment. It is concerned with such questions as: Do moral judgments express beliefs or rather desires and inclinations? Are moral judgments apt to be assessed in terms of truth and falsity? Do moral sentences have factual meaning?

It’s hard to see how we could change facts about metaethics just by changing our metaethical beliefs, and similarly hard to see how we could create facts about ethics just by having some ethical beliefs.

A level metaethics is about what moral judgements – e.g. “murder is wrong” – mean and what (if anything) makes them true or false. The main debate is about whether mind-independent moral properties exist or not: Moral anti-realism: Mind-independent …

Metaethics is the branch of ethics that investigates the fundamental questions about the nature of moral judgments, values, and properties. It examines the meaning, metaphysics, and epistemology of moral statements, rather than focusing …