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Moral philosophy should contain

    { 1 } - analyses of ethical terms.
    { 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
    { 3 } - actual moral judgments.
    { 4 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
    { 5 } - all of the above.

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1 is correct!

Moral philosophy should contain

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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2 is wrong. Please try again.

Moral philosophy should contain

    { 1 } - analyses of ethical terms.
    { 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
    { 3 } - actual moral judgments.
    { 4 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
    { 5 } - all of the above.

These aren't truth claims, and so don't belong to philosophy.

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3 is wrong. Please try again.

Moral philosophy should contain

    { 1 } - analyses of ethical terms.
    { 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
    { 3 } - actual moral judgments.
    { 4 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
    { 5 } - all of the above.

These aren't truth claims, and so don't belong to philosophy.

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4 is wrong. Please try again.

Moral philosophy should contain

    { 1 } - analyses of ethical terms.
    { 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
    { 3 } - actual moral judgments.
    { 4 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
    { 5 } - all of the above.

These belong to psychology and sociology.

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5 is wrong. Please try again.

Moral philosophy should contain

    { 1 } - analyses of ethical terms.
    { 2 } - exhortations to moral virtue.
    { 3 } - actual moral judgments.
    { 4 } - descriptions of moral experience and its causes.
    { 5 } - all of the above.

Did you read Ayer?

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