METAETHICS

Meaning of METAETHICS in English

noun plural but usually singular in construction Date: 1938 the study of the meanings of ethical terms, the nature of ethical judgments, and the types of ethical arguments, metaethical adjective

Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012

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 — A study of ethical systems to determine whether they are based on objective foundations, whether they are justified, etc.
English Glossary of religious terms
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 .
English Glossary of religious terms

Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster

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