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- noun The study of the meaning and nature of ethical terms, judgments, and arguments.
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- noun ethics The
descriptive study of philosophicalethical systems, especially with regard to theirkey concepts ,techniques ofreasoning andanalysis , andlinguistic conventions .
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Examples
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You also have Michael Smith doing a brand of conceptual analysis in metaethics (and Peacocke in philosophy of perception).
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Partly because political philosophy is my branch, and partly because I don't particularly dig the modern philosophical vernacular (yeah, I don't like reading turgid journal articles or semiotics either, nor "metaethics" either) most of the newer authors whom I read are really just commentators on ancient and medieval texts.
MetaFilter Projects 2008
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As a consequence, such a line of argument does not seem especially promising, given the present state of metaethics.
The Problem of Evil Tooley, Michael 2009
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It should not be too surprising that this is the case in metaethics and that present day non-cognitivist theories are less distinguishable from cognitivist alternatives than earlier versions.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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There is no adequate proof of the truth of metaethics.
Søren Kierkegaard McDonald, William 2009
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In other words, according to my own metaethics, the command of God cannot make an immoral action moral.
In Abraham's Shoes Without A Bible James F. McGrath 2009
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The metaethics or normative ethics are cognitivist, laying down various necessary conditions for ethically correct action.
Søren Kierkegaard McDonald, William 2009
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(Section 3) Does evolutionary theory shed light on metaethics, helping to resolve questions about the existence and nature of morality in the normative sense (as claimed by proponents of evolutionary metaethics)?
Morality and Evolutionary Biology FitzPatrick, William 2008
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Progress in metaethics will derive from progress in substantive moral and political theorizing, instead of (as often assumed) vice versa.
John Rawls Wenar, Leif 2008
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Nonetheless, moral relativism is a standard topic in metaethics, and there are contemporary philosophers who defend forms of it: The most prominent are Gilbert Harman and David B. Wong.
Moral Relativism Gowans, Chris 2008
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