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Introducing Metaethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2023

Zoë Johnson King
Zoë Johnson King*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

We often describe actions as good, bad, right, wrong, fair, unkind, deserved, disrespectful, a bit much, and so on. This article asks: Do these terms describe facts about our actions? And do those facts tell us to perform certain actions and refrain from performing others? If so, what exactly does that mean? And, if not, what are we doing when we describe actions in these various ways?

Keywords

metaethicsrelativismmoralityGodwrong
Type
Research Article
Information
Think , Volume 22 , Issue 64 , Summer 2023 , pp. 23 - 28
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy

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