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Ideas for Dennis Whitcomb, Richard M. Hare and Timothy McGrew
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
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How can intuitionists distinguish universal convictions from local cultural ones? [Hare]
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You can't use intuitions to decide which intuitions you should cultivate [Hare]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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Emotivists mistakenly think all disagreements are about facts, and so there are no moral reasons [Hare]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism
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If morality is just a natural or intuitive description, that leads to relativism [Hare]
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In primary evaluative words like 'ought' prescription is constant but description can vary [Hare, by Hooker,B]
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Moral statements are imperatives rather than the avowals of emotion - but universalisable [Hare, by Glock]
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Universalised prescriptivism could be seen as implying utilitarianism [Hare, by Foot]
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Hare says I acquire an agglomeration of preferences by role-reversal, leading to utilitarianism [Hare, by Williams,B]
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If we have to want the preferences of the many, we have to abandon our own deeply-held views [Williams,B on Hare]
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If morality is to be built on identification with the preferences of others, I must agree with their errors [Williams,B on Hare]
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A judgement is presciptive if we expect it to be acted on [Hare]
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Descriptivism say ethical meaning is just truth-conditions; prescriptivism adds an evaluation [Hare]
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If there can be contradictory prescriptions, then reasoning must be involved [Hare]
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An 'ought' statement implies universal application [Hare]
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Prescriptivism sees 'ought' statements as imperatives which are universalisable [Hare]
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Prescriptivism implies a commitment, but descriptivism doesn't [Hare]
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