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Metaethics (Topical Term)

Preferred form: Metaethics
Used for/see from:
  • Meta-ethics
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Work cat: Oxford studies in metaethics

Stanford encyclopedia of ethics (online): (Metaethics is the attempt to understand the metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological, presuppositions and commitments of moral thought, talk, and practice.)

Encyclopedia of philosophy, 2006: p. 155 (Metaethics addresses second-order questions about the meaning and status of moral judgments.)

Web 3: (Metaethics, discipline dealing with the foundations of ethics, specif. with the nature of normative utterances and ethical justification)

McCloskey, Henry John. Meta-ethics and normative ethics, 1969.

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