PHLB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Meta-Ethics, Individualism, Houseplant
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Jamieson: value something intrinsically like loving your children (value your children for themselves even though you have an emotional response, another example is preserving art sources, common objection: We can value things intrinsically not that we ought to value them intrinsically. To make people think that we should value things intrinsically : first order ethical claims are about which actions are right and wrong, etc. Claims about the things being right or wrong or things that are good or bad: second order ethical claims are about first order ethical claims. About 1st order claims or concepts we use when we make those judgements: metaethical claims: claim about the concept of wrongness. I am not using the word wrong but i am just saying the word has 5 letters i"m mentioning the word wrong but not using it. 2nd order statement: response dependence view: its meta ethical. A certain individual is behaving wrongly and they should know that.
