PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Divine Command Theory
4 Jul 2016
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Cognitivist positions: (all believe that moral beliefs make sense, and are potentially are true {despite ayer"s belief that they are in fact all false}) Non-naturalism: opposite to naturalism > moral absolutism. This view, we have an intellectual capacity (moral intuition or moral sense ) to detect non-natural properties (of which goodness is one) Emotivism: moral statements, the boo-hurrah theory of ethics : we do not make ethical statements; instead we boo or cheer. I may nd myself approving of some act, and yet believe that it is wrong. To say that stealing is wrong means i have negative emotions towards stealing . To say that stealing is wrong is to display negative emotion towards stealing. The rst opinion is still cognitivist; moral language still has meaning. If emotivism is correct, moral arguments are impossible. One can only make an argument with propositions.
