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Explain and discuss the four major theories of meta-ethics; Naturalism, Emotivism, Intuitionism and Prescriptivism.
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... 3 November 2003 Explain and discuss the four major theories of meta-ethics; Naturalism, Emotivism, Intuitionism and Prescriptivism. Meta-ethics is the debate of ethical language. Discussions about whether ethics is relative and whether we always act from self-interest are examples of meta-ethical debates. In fact, evaluating the hypothetical difference between Meta-ethics, Normative Ethics, and Applied Ethics is a "meta-ethical analysis" itself. "Meta" means after or beyond, and so meta-ethics involves a removed view of the entire project. Naturalism is the idea that ethical values can be proven in the same way that scientific values are. It is the idea that morals are facts, and they are facts because they can be proven like scientific facts can be by experiments, hypothesise, observation and analysis. Ethical naturalism tries to connect the way we reason morally to the way we reason scientifically and states that they are similar. Naturalism states that the ethical
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