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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

5205	Moral intuition is worthless if there is no criterion to decide between intuitions [Ayer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

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Ayer defends the emotivist version of expressivism [Ayer, by Smith,M]

5206	To say an act is wrong makes no further statement about it, but merely expresses disapproval [Ayer]