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    Moral claims are mere expressions of one's emotions and do not describe any objective moral truths. There are no moral properties and moral judgments cannot be judged as true or false. Emotivism holds that moral language is used to express approval or disapproval but does not make factual claims about the world.

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    Moral claims are mere expressions of one's emotions and do not describe any objective moral truths. There are no moral properties and moral judgments cannot be judged as true or false. Emotivism holds that moral language is used to express approval or disapproval but does not make factual claims about the world.

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    Psychological Emotivism
    Philosopical Emotivism We use the word ‘good’ to
    express what we feel to be
    Moral claims are mere
    positive to people.
    Emotivism expression of one’s U. Prescriptivism
    emotion. Skepticism Moral claims are
    Anti-Realism recommendations of what actions
    There is no moral properties can be done that everyone is
    There is no such thing as moral or fact, moral talk is an capable to follow.
    properties, moral claims are attempt to describe the
    meaningless, it doesn’t exist. fabric of the world.

    Intuitionism
    Moral properties are indefinable; they are primitive
    ideas we know solely through our intuitions. There
    are no use of defining intuitions we have clear U. Prescriptivism
    intuitions of. Moral claims are not descriptions about the world;
    they are prescription of action that we desire to be
    applied universally.
    Non-Naturalism
    Emotivism
    One can never define
    moral properties using Expressions of emotions have no truth-
    non-moral properties. values at all.

    Non-Cognitivism
    Relativism Cognitivism
    Moral claims cannon be
    Differences in moral judgement cannot be
    resolved for what is ‘good’ is relative to judge as true or false.
    the norms of each society, therefore
    judgements are equally valid.

    Subjectivism
    A particular action is good
    or right just because ‘I’
    Moral Judgment
    like that particular action. Description of a state of affairs
    in light of certain facts (brute or
    Objectivism institutional).

    There is no objective way Descriptivism


    of reducing moral
    properties to non-moral Expresses a claim about the
    ones. language that is typically used when
    people give moral judgements.
    Non Moral Descriptivism
    Utilitarianism
    Error Theory We cannot have a moral
    The goodness of as action as the
    property of that action that conclusion from solely factual
    Moral judgments are claims if we were to follow the
    promotes happiness for the
    greatest number of people. always false.
    rules of standard logic.
    Supernaturalism Cognitivism
    Idea that the moral property
    being good is definable as Claims that we can judge
    ‘following the will of God’. moral claims as true or
    false.
    Naturalism Moral Descriptivism
    We can never really have a
    Claims that moral properties
    are indeed definable in terms reason for a moral claim without
    of non-moral properties assuming other moral claims.

    Realism Moral Epistemology


    If there are moral facts, then A systematic and critical study
    there exist such a thing as the of morality as a body of
    quality of being good or bad.
    knowledge.

    Moral Ontology Moral Reasoning


    Claims that moral properties are One cannot derive and ought
    indeed definable in terms of non-
    moral properties. METAETHICS statement from an is
    statement

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