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What are the three general subject areas into which philosophers usually divide ethics?
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metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics
--http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/ethics.htm |
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What does the term "meta" mean, and how does it relate to metaethics?
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The term "meta" means after or beyond. "...the notion of metaethics involves a removed, or bird's eye view of the entire project of ethics.
-http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/ethics.htm#Metaethics |
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What is a more formal definition of metaethics?
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"We may define metaethics as the study of the origin and meaning of ethical concepts."
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What are the two prominent issues in metaethics?
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Metaphysical issues and psychological issues.
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What does the metaphysical issue in ethics concern? What question does it deal with?
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Does morality exist independently of humans?
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What is metaphysics a study of?
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The kinds of things that exist in the universe.
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What does the metaphysical component of metaethics involve?
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discovering specifically whether moral values are eternal truths that exist in a spirit-like realm, or simply human conventions
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What are the two general directions that metaphysical metaethics takes?
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The other-worldly and the this-worldly.
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What do proponents of the other-worldly view hold?
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"...that moral values are objective in the sense that they exist in a spirit-like realm beyond subjective human conventions. They also hold that they are absolute, or eternal, in that they never change, and also that they are universal insofar as they apply to all rational creatures around the world and throughout time."
-http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/ethics.htm#Metaphysical%20Issues:%20Objectivism%20and%20Relativism |
