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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

5168	Moral approval and disapproval concerns classes of actions, rather than particular actions [Ayer]
	Full Idea: The common objects of moral approval and disapproval are not particular actions so much as classes of actions.
	From: A.J. Ayer (Introduction to 'Language Truth and Logic' [1946], p.27)
	A reaction: This 1946 revision of his pure emotivism looks like a move towards Hare's prescriptivism, where classes, rules and principles are seen as the window-dressing of emotivism. It's still a bad theory.