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'Universal Prescriptivism', 'Intro to 'Communitarianism and Individualism'' and 'Writings from Late Notebooks'
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
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Morality is a system of values which accompanies a being's life [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
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Morality is merely interpretations, which are extra-moral in origin [Nietzsche]
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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 / d. Biological ethics
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Values are innate and inherited [Nietzsche]
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Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth [Nietzsche]
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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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Prescriptivism sees 'ought' statements as imperatives which are universalisable [Hare]
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If morality is just a natural or intuitive description, that leads to relativism [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 implies a commitment, but descriptivism doesn't [Hare]
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