METAETHICS

Meaning of METAETHICS in English

A study of ethical systems to determine whether they are based on objective foundations, whether they are justified, etc.

English glossary of religious terms. Английский глоссарий религиозных терминов. 2012

METAETHICS — noun plural but usually singular in construction Date: 1938 the study of the meanings of ethical terms, the nature of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
METAETHICS — “+ noun plural but usually singular in construction Etymology: meta- + ethics : a discipline dealing with the foundations of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
METAETHICS — — metaethical , adj. /met'euh eth"iks, met"euh eth'-/ , n. ( usually used with a sing. v. ) the philosophy …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
METAETHICS — noun plural but usually singular in construction Date: 1938 : the study of the meanings of ethical terms, the nature …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
METAETHICS — [meta.eth.ics] n pl but usu sing in constr (1949): the study of the meanings of ethical terms, the nature of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
METAETHICS — the subdiscipline of ethics concerned with determining the nature of moral concepts and judgments largely through the analysis of the …
Britannica English vocabulary
METAETHICS — An attempt to analyze or describe the ways in which moral judgments are actually used. May be distinguished as cognitivist …
Theological and Philosophical Biography English vocab
METAETHICS — (n) метаэтика
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
METAETHICS — Pronunciation: - ' e-thiks Function: noun plural but usually singular in construction Date: 1938 : the study of the meanings …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
METAETHICAL — adjective see: metaethics
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PRESCRIPTIVISM — In metaethics, the view that moral judgments are prescriptions and therefore have the logical form of imperatives. Prescriptivism was first …
Английский словарь Британика
INTUITIONISM — I In metaethics, a form of cognitivism that holds that moral statements can be known to be true or false …
Английский словарь Британика
ETHICS — I Branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be …
Английский словарь Британика
EMOTIVISM — In metaethics (see ethics ), the view that moral judgments do not function as statements of fact but rather as …
Английский словарь Британика
COGNITIVISM — In metaethics, the thesis that the function of moral sentences (e.g., sentences in which moral terms such as "right," "wrong," …
Английский словарь Британика
METAETHICAL — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ at meta- + adjective : of or relating to metaethics
Webster's New International English Dictionary
METAETHICAL — see metaethics
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GOOD-REASONS THEORY — in American and British metaethics, an approach that tries to establish the validity or objectivity of moral judgments by examining …
Britannica English vocabulary
ETHICS — also called Moral Philosophy, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong. The term is …
Britannica English vocabulary
PRESCRIPTIVISM — n. In metaethics, the view that moral judgments are prescriptions and therefore have the logical form of imperatives. Prescriptivism was …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
INTUITIONISM — n. In metaethics, a form of cognitivism that holds that moral statements can be known to be true or false …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
ETHICS — n. Branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
EMOTIVISM — In metaethics (see ethics ), the view that moral judgments do not function as statements of fact but rather as …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
COGNITIVISM — In metaethics, the thesis that the function of moral sentences (e.g., sentences in which moral terms such as "right," "wrong," …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PHILOSOPHY — n. 25B6; noun the philosophy of Aristotle : THINKING, thought, reasoning. See list. her political philosophy : BELIEFS, credo, convictions, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
ETHICS — The study of human values and moral conduct. See also Normative Ethics and Metaethics .
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