Philosophy › Section H · Value theory › Topic H.3
Metaethics
When someone says "cruelty is wrong", are they stating a fact, voicing a feeling or issuing a command? Metaethics asks what moral claims mean, whether any are true and how we could know, questions that sit beneath every argument about right and wrong.
In this topic
- Three levels of ethics
- Mapping the positions
- Non-naturalist realism
- Naturalist realism
- Error theory
- Emotivism and expressivism
- Worked example: the Frege-Geach problem
- Constructivism
- Religious foundations
- Worked example: one claim, five readings
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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