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'(If I) Say stealing money is wrong' I produce a statement which has no factual meaning - that is, expresses no proposition which can be either true or false' - Explain and discuss the reasons Ayer puts forward for this view of ethical judgements.
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5/ '(IF I) SAY STEALING MONEY IS WRONG' I PRODUCE A STATEMENT WHICH HAS NO FACTUAL MEANING - THAT IS, EXPRESSES NO PROPOSITION WHICH CAN BE EITHER TRUE OR FALSE' (A.J. AYER LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND LOGIC CH 6. ) EXPLAIN AND DISCUSS THE REASONS AYER PUTS FORWARD FOR THIS VIEW OF ETHICAL JUDGEMENTS. A.J. Ayer's ideas on modern ethics were laid out in his groundbreaking book Language, Truth and Logic, which has been praised as the foundation to Logical Positivism. First published in 1930, it was a controversial best seller at the time, due to its basic outlook that ethical judgements have no or very little meaning. Ayer came to this conclusion from the notion that an ethical judgement has no means of being empirically proved and therefore cannot be determined to be a statement of fact. An ethical statement must be based upon one's subjective emotions and feelings, so in the...
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