Ethical Language

• Takes us behind what is going on in Normative Ethics, looks at the words we use and how we use them
• Fundamental questions about the meaning of ethics and the meaning of good, bad, right and wrong.
• Moral Realism


  The view that right and wrong objectively exist independently from the mind - They are real properties.
• Anti-Realism


  Right and wrong do not objectively exist independently from the mind
• Moral Truth as a Transcendent Truth


  There is one objective set of moral principles that are external to the subjective opinion of human beings.

  Regarded as higher/superior and usually assumes universalisability.

  Authoritative - the right way to do something