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[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism ]

Full Idea

Non-descriptivists (e.g. prescriptivists) reject descriptivism in its naturalist or intuitionist form, because they are both destined to collapse into relativism.

Gist of Idea

If morality is just a natural or intuitive description, that leads to relativism

Source

Richard M. Hare (Universal Prescriptivism [1991], p.453)

Book Ref

'A Companion to Ethics', ed/tr. Singer,Peter [Blackwell 1993], p.453


A Reaction

I'm not clear from this why prescriptism would not also turn out to be relativist, if it includes evaluations along with facts.