Unit 4: Optional theme — Ethics
Topic 4.2: Meta-ethics Questions
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True or false? On cognitivism, a moral claim like 'stealing is wrong' can be true or false.
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Moral relativism is the view that:
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Fill the gap: on the realist's view, morality is ______ (like the truths of maths), not made up by us.
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The main APPEAL of relativism is that it seems to promote:
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Moral realism is the view that:
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The open-question argument (non-naturalism) says that for any natural fact, like 'increases happiness':
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Emotivism says that saying 'cruelty is wrong' is basically:
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The realist's reply to 'you can never see or weigh wrongness' is that:
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The subjectivist argues that 'cruelty is wrong' really:
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Which of these is NOT one of the four candidate sources of moral values in this micro?
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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 'fact–value gap' is the point that:
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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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The objectivist's 'mistaken society' argument is that:
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Anti-realism about morality is the view that:
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Meta-ethics is best described as the study of:
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True or false? Anti-realism says moral claims report facts that exist out in the world, independently of us.
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A non-cognitivist holds that 'stealing is wrong':
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