COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Meta-Ethics

• School: University of Arkansas-Monticello
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 2273
• Professor: Key

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Generic overview: this is a misinterpretation of emotivism emotivism says that there is no way for moral judgments to be evaluated whatsoever, which precludes the possibility of even a subjective metaethical view. The emotivism espoused by ayer in ltl was supported by his belief in the distinction between fact and value. Given, he thought, that there were no moral facts to be known, there could be no verification of such facts, and so moral utterances could have no cognitive significance. And given the connection between moral judgment" and motivation, and the connection between motivation and feeling, it was natural to see moral utterances as having the function of expressing our feelings, or emoting". This view, ayer was careful to point out, was not that associated with subjectivism, that in making moral claims we are describing our feelings. This latter view would make moral claims truth-evaluable, and ayer"s moral emotivism denied that they were so evaluable.