Metaethical analysis of ethics via synthetic/analytic distinction: Do ethics have any 'real' significance?

Abstract

Are moral claims true? This article uses a synthetic/analytic perspective to examine the metaethical issue of moral realism. And in doing so, I present a different, internally consistent metaethical theory. However, I also go beyond the metaethical and consider how it would actually work in practice. My paper will make the case that, rather than providing a factual explanation for moral claims, emotivism provides the most comprehensive account of the status of ethical language and its significance in the emotive role.

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Saron Negash
University of Notre Dame

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