PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Open-Question Argument, Emotivism, Empirical Evidence
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Emotivism/expressivism-rejects that first half of non-naturalism, that moral judgments can be true or false. Moral judgments aren"t the kind of things that can be true or false, we are not saying the kind of thing that could be true. Didn"t deny the second half of non-naturalism, that moral judgments were a separate kind of judgment, emotivists endorsed that. Moore"s open question argument was a terrific argument. Believed it showed that moral judgments don"t report facts at all. 1)x is wrong= x-ing by anyone, whatever his attitude to x-ing=boo! what moral judgments do is express attitudes x is wrong -express a negative attitude ex. Toronto maple leafsboo! (cant be true or false), don"t express any attitude toward whether or not someone else likes the leafs, doesn"t say that everyone ought to dislike the leafs. Saying lying is wrong, is making it universal, lying by anybody is wrong. No matter what your attitude is, lying would be wrong.
