Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes. Hence, it is colloquially known as the hurrah/boo theory. Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory was stated vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth a...
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theory that moral statements are inherently biased
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(from the article `ethics`) In his above-cited Language, Truth and Logic, Ayer offered an alternative account: moral judgments are neither logical truths nor statements of fact. ... ...function of moral language is not to state facts but to express feelings of approval or disapproval toward some action or to influence the ... ...acti...
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A philosophical position in the theory of ethics. Emotivists deny that moral judgements can be true or false, maintaining that they merely express an attitude or an emotional response. The concept...
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the non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another. It is heavily associated with the work of A. J. Ayer and C. L. Stevenson, and it is related to the prescriptivism of R. M. Hare.
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A philosophical position in the theory of ethics. Emotivists deny that moral judgements can be true or false, maintaining that they merely express an attitude or an emotional response. The concept came to prominence during the 1930s, largely under the influence of
Language, Truth and Logic 1936 by the English philosopher A J Ayer
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Emotivism, or the emotive theory of moral judgements, maintains that moral utterances (
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