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emotivismIn metaethics (see ethics), the view that moral judgments do not function as statements of fact but rather as expressions of the speaker's or writer's feelings. According to the emotivist, when we say “You acted wrongly in stealing that money,” we are not expressing any fact beyond that stated by “You stole that money.” It is, however, as if we had stated this fact with a special tone of abhorrence, for in saying that something is wrong, we are expressing our feelings of disapproval toward it. Emotivism was expounded by A. J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic (1936) and developed by Charles Stevenson in Ethics and Language (1945). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She makes a strong case that it leads directly to narcissism, or to the preoccupation with self; separatism, or loss of a sense of community and the eradication of what Aristotle called "civic virtue"; emotivism, or the rejection of all truth and value in the name of "feelings"; and cynicism, or the view that nothing really matters. It isn't so much that we should all agree, by no means, but that we increasingly lack the means whereby we can disagree robustly because those who most strenuously adhere to the epistemology MacIntyre associates with the liberal establishmentarians - emotivism, subjectivism, utilitarianism - refuse to recognize their own epistemological commitments. Hume is not arguing for moral irrationalism or emotivism. |
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