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metaethics
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metaethics [met″ah-eth´iks]
analysis of the language, concepts, and methods of reasoning in ethics. It studies the meanings of such ethical terms as right, obligation, virtue, principle, justification, sympathy, morality, and responsibility. It also includes study of moral epistemology (the theory of moral knowledge) and the logic and patterns of moral reasoning and justification. Questions for analysis include whether social morality is objective or subjective, relative or nonrelative, and rational or emotive. adj., adj metaeth´ical.
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Late twentieth century moral philosophers such as Rawls, Brandt, Frankfurt, Nagel and Williams have taken it for granted, and have made use of it to supply metaethical foundations for a wide variety of normative moral theories.
Rationality and the structure of the self a two-volume study in ... by Piper, Adrian M.S. / Artforum International
brings together essays from 1964 to the present on metaethical considerations, competition and fair play, doping and genetic enhancement, gender and sexual equality, and other issues such as violence, exploitation, race, spectatorship, and disability.
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Here too, I assume some form of metaethical realism and cognitivism, such that there can be right answers to questions of general values; what defines the category is that professional legal training confers no special advantage in finding those answers, even though they are, by incorporation into law, the right legal answers.
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