Unit 4: Optional theme — Ethics
Topic 4.2: Meta-ethics Questions
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Fill the gap: relativism's biggest attraction is its promise of ______ — 'who am I to judge another culture?'.
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What does a top-band Paper 1 Section B essay on ethical language actually do?
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The open-question argument (non-naturalism) says that for any natural fact, like 'increases happiness':
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Fill the gap: emotivism is the 'boo!/hurrah!' theory — 'cruelty is wrong' really means 'Boo to cruelty!', so moral claims express ______, not facts.
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Universalism about morality is the view that:
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A non-cognitivist holds that 'stealing is wrong':
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Moral relativism is the view that:
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Fill the gap: for Hume, morality comes mainly from ______, not pure reason — we feel wrongness before we reason it.
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Hume's 'fact–value gap' is the point that:
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Anti-realism about morality is the view that:
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The main APPEAL of relativism is that it seems to promote:
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The subjectivist argues that 'cruelty is wrong' really:
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The realist's reply to 'you can never see or weigh wrongness' is that:
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Emotivism says that saying 'cruelty is wrong' is basically:
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Meta-ethics is best described as the study of:
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The 'can't condemn cruelty' problem for strict relativism is that:
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The 'discovered vs invented' question about morality asks whether values are:
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Hume's line 'reason is the slave of the passions' means that:
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True or false? Meta-ethics is mainly about deciding which particular actions are right or wrong.
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