PHI 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Relativism, John Stuart Mill, Consequentialism
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The systematic effort to understand moral concepts and justify moral principles and theories. non-cognitive ethical theories it has no truth value cognitive theories we can know its value emotivism. The noncognitive theory that moral utterances are (or include) factually meaningless expressions of feelings (ayer, stevenson). ethical realism. The theory that moral principles gain their validity only through approval by the culture or the individual. ethical subjectivism. The relativist view that all moral principles are justified by virtue of their acceptance by an individual agent him- or herself epistemology the study of knowledge conditions of knowledge a justified, true belief. You believe it is true for the very reasons it is true determinism the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will. descriptive describe something prescriptive recommends or commands rationalism. The theory that reason can tells us how the world is, independent of experience empiricism.
