booklet on meta ethics

• what questions does meta-ethics usually ask?


  what is meant by goodness? do 'goodness' and right actually exist or is it based upon opinions
• what are the 3 main approaches?


  naturalism, intuitionism and emotivism
• what does naturalism believe?


  right and wrong can be known empirically and that these truths have moral standards.
• what do intuitionism believe?


  there is right and wrong but it disagrees with naturalism with how it becomes known. Intuitionism believe moral truths are self-evident
• what does emotivism believe?


  believes there are no moral facts but our ethical judgements are merely showing approval or disapproval indicating subjective feelings on the issues> Ethical claims are factually meaningless.