PHIL1013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rational Basis Review, Foundationalism, Descriptive Ethics
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The only definite answer seems to be that good and evil apply to the character of a person while right and wrong apply to their actions: metaethical positions respond to such questions by examining: The psychology of how morality affects us as embodied human agents. The epistemology of how we come to know moral values. The significance of anthropological disagreement on moral values and practices. In other words, metaethics is about understanding the semantic, ontological, psychological, epistemological and anthropological presuppositions and commitments to moral thought, talk and practice. Cognitivism world: cognitivists argue that it would seem to be the default view of our moral discourse given the apparent structure such discourse seems to have. If it is (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g to lie, the(cid:374) it is (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g to get o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s si(cid:271)li(cid:374)g to lie. Therefore, it is wrong to get o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s si(cid:271)li(cid:374)g to lie.
