Moral Realism

Which best describes moral realism?

• Moral facts can be true or false

• Moral properties are mind independent

• Moral properties are mind dependent

• The ten commandments

Which best describes cognitivism?

• Moral statements try to describe the world but are always false

• Moral statements express emotions

• Moral statements are trying to describe the world- they are truth apt

• Moral statements refer to 'oughts' rather than 'is'

Moral naturalism is the claim that

• Goodness is identical with a natural property

• Goodness is not identical with a natural property

• Goodness can be true/false

• Goodness is unanalysable

Non-naturalism claims

• Nature is good

• Natural properties are inherently evil

• Morality is unnatural

• Goodness is not identical with any natural property

The open question argument is a response to...

• Non Naturalism

• Cognitivism

• Ethical Naturalism

• Utilitarianism

What is the name of Hume's argument against realism?

Moore thinks goodness is

• The same thing as virtue

• The same thing as happiness

• Unanalysable, knowable through intuition

• Discoverable through reflective equilibrium

We can respond to the open question argument with

• Mill's argument about what is desirable

• The sense/reference distinction

• Hume's is-ought gap

• Emotivism

We can respond to Intuitionism with (multiple)

• Intuitions conflict

• Mackie's argument from relativity

• Mackie's argument from queerness

• Prescriptivism