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According to Ayer, moral philosophy should contain
{ 1 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
{ 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
{ 3 } - actual moral judgments.
{ 4 } - analyses of ethical terms.
{ 5 } - all of the above.
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According to Ayer, moral philosophy should contain
{ 1 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
{ 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
{ 3 } - actual moral judgments.
{ 4 } - analyses of ethical terms.
{ 5 } - all of the above.
These belong to psychology and sociology.
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According to Ayer, moral philosophy should contain
{ 1 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
{ 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
{ 3 } - actual moral judgments.
{ 4 } - analyses of ethical terms.
{ 5 } - all of the above.
These aren't truth claims, and so don't belong to philosophy.
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According to Ayer, moral philosophy should contain
{ 1 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
{ 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
{ 3 } - actual moral judgments.
{ 4 } - analyses of ethical terms.
{ 5 } - all of the above.
These aren't truth claims, and so don't belong to philosophy.
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According to Ayer, moral philosophy should contain
{ 1 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
{ 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
{ 3 } - actual moral judgments.
{ 4 } - analyses of ethical terms.
{ 5 } - all of the above.
We must explain that ethical terms are emotive pseudo-concepts -- that "X is bad" just means "Boo on X!"
Ayer paradoxically said: "A strictly philosophical treatise on ethics SHOULD therefore make no ethical pronouncements."
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According to Ayer, moral philosophy should contain
{ 1 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
{ 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
{ 3 } - actual moral judgments.
{ 4 } - analyses of ethical terms.
{ 5 } - all of the above.
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