Ima Emotivist thinks that, if we accept a scientific attitude toward the world, then we're led inescapably to the emotivist approach to ethics.
Ima Emotivist thinks that, if we accept a scientific attitude toward the world, then we're led inescapably to the emotivist approach to ethics.
Her "scientific attitude" is expressed in logical positivism, which claims that any genuine truth claim has to be either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition). Since moral judgments are neither empirical nor analytic, she concludes that they can't be truth claims -- and so must instead express feelings.
Ima Emotivist thinks that, if we accept a scientific attitude toward the world, then we're led inescapably to the emotivist approach to ethics.
Her "scientific attitude" is expressed in logical positivism, which claims that any genuine truth claim has to be either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition). Since moral judgments are neither empirical nor analytic, she concludes that they can't be truth claims -- and so must instead express feelings.