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Which is closest to Mill's view? Moral judgments are
{ 1 } - exclamations like "Hurrah for X!" (emotivism).
{ 2 } - statements about God's will (the divine command theory).
{ 3 } - equivalent in meaning to ordinary empirical judgments (naturalism).
{ 4 } - objective truth claims knowable through intuition (intuitionism).
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Which is closest to Mill's view? Moral judgments are
{ 1 } - exclamations like "Hurrah for X!" (emotivism).
{ 2 } - statements about God's will (the divine command theory).
{ 3 } - equivalent in meaning to ordinary empirical judgments (naturalism).
{ 4 } - objective truth claims knowable through intuition (intuitionism).
He seems to presume that ethical judgments are true or false. And he tries to prove that utilitarianism is true. Emotivism rejects such claims.
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Which is closest to Mill's view? Moral judgments are
{ 1 } - exclamations like "Hurrah for X!" (emotivism).
{ 2 } - statements about God's will (the divine command theory).
{ 3 } - equivalent in meaning to ordinary empirical judgments (naturalism).
{ 4 } - objective truth claims knowable through intuition (intuitionism).
His view isn't much like the divine command theory.
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Which is closest to Mill's view? Moral judgments are
{ 1 } - exclamations like "Hurrah for X!" (emotivism).
{ 2 } - statements about God's will (the divine command theory).
{ 3 } - equivalent in meaning to ordinary empirical judgments (naturalism).
{ 4 } - objective truth claims knowable through intuition (intuitionism).
He doesn't explicitly define "good." But his arguments presume that "intrinsically good" means "desired for its own sake." And he derives conclusions about what is good from premises about what is desired.
So his "inductive view" is close to naturalism.
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Which is closest to Mill's view? Moral judgments are
{ 1 } - exclamations like "Hurrah for X!" (emotivism).
{ 2 } - statements about God's will (the divine command theory).
{ 3 } - equivalent in meaning to ordinary empirical judgments (naturalism).
{ 4 } - objective truth claims knowable through intuition (intuitionism).
He explicitly rejects intuitionism, which he calls the "intuitive view."
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