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- The Argument from Relativity (often more perspicaciously referred to as “the Argument from Disagreement”) begins with an empirical observation: that there is an enormous amount of variation in moral views, and that moral disagreements are often characterized by an unusual degree of intractability.
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- Overview – Metaethics
- Realist Theories
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A level metaethics is about what moral judgements – e.g. “murder is wrong” – mean and what (if anything) makes them true or false. The main debate is about whether mind-independent moral propertiesexist or not: 1. Moral realism:There are mind-independent, objective, moral properties and facts – e.g. “murder is wrong” is a moral fact because the act...
Realist metaethical theories argue that mind-independent moral properties – such as ‘right’, ‘wrong’, ‘good’, and ‘bad’ – exist. These moral properties give rise to mind-independent moral facts, such as “murder is wrong”. A realist would say murder has the property of wrongness in the same way grass has the property of greenness or a table has the ...
Anti-realist metaethical theories argue that mind independent moral propertiesdo not exist.As such, there are no such things as mind-independent moral facts. The syllabus looks at 3 anti-realist metaethical theories: 1. Error theory says moral judgements are cognitive statements but properties don’t exist 2. Emotivism says moral judgements are non-...
Jul 29, 2024 · Mackie’s arguments for moral error theory include the Argument from Diversity, the Argument from Strangeness, and the Argument from Objectification.
Sep 24, 2023 · Mackie’s ethical subjectivism is built on two main pillars: the argument from relativity and the argument from queerness. These arguments challenge the idea that moral values are objective and independent of human opinion.
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Argument from Relativity. Mackie’s first objection to Realism is built out of his appreciation of the depth of moral disagreement, and so shares something with one of the objections to Intuitionism offered in the previous section.
Two main kinds of argument are offered by Mackie in support of his contention that there are no objective values. The first, called the argument from relativity (pp. 36-38), is as follows. (Mackie, it will be noticed, focuses on moral values, especially in his first argument.) (1) There is a great deal of variation in moral codes from one ...
Mar 24, 2011 · The argument from relativity suggests that the best explanation for empirically observed and very disparate moral beliefs is that no objective moral reality exists on which to ground these beliefs; rather, moral belief is owed to the contingent experiences of particular communities (p. 36).
