Meta-Ethics 11DP Ethics

What does the prefix "meta" mean?

• "The shape of"

• "Change/changing"

• "The Nature of"

• "Bahasa Indonesia teacher"

What's moral realism?

• The belief that morals are expressions of emotion.

• The belief that moral terms refer to something mind independent and objective

• The belief that morals are contrary to nature.

• The belief that morals aren't "natural".

What's moral anti-realism?

• The belief that morals are expressions of emotion.

• The belief that morals aren't real or objective.

• The belief that morals are real and objective

• The belief that morals are contrary to nature.

Cognitivism claims...

• ...that moral language expresses propositions which can be known.

• ... that moral language doesn't express beliefs, but some other state.

• ... that moral language is motivating.

• ...that moral properties are mind-independent.

Non-cognitivism claims...

• ...that moral language is motivating.

• ...that moral language expresses beliefs.

• ...that moral language express objectively unknowable propositions.

• ...that cognitivists are non-human.

What is moral naturalism?

• The idea that moral terms are mind-independent, natural facts.

• The idea that moral terms are mind-independent,non-natural facts.

• The idea that moral terms are mind-dependent.

• The idea that moral terms are expressions of emotion.

For Bentham, 'right' is reducible to...

• pain

• preferences

• the majority

• pleasure

What, according to Aristotle, is humanity's greatest natural quality?

• happiness

• rationality

• courage

• cleverness

What two qualities does naturalism have?

• realist, non-cognitivist

• anti-realist, cognitivist

• anti-realist, non-cognitivist

• realist, cognitivist

The main consequentialist intuitionist

• Gregory Edward Moore

• George Edward Moore

• Graham Edward Moore

• Grant Edward Moore