My score on The Meta-ethical Theories Test:
Subjectivism
(You scored 45 Objectivism, 73 Naturalism, and 73 Cognitivism!)
There are meaningful ethical propositions which can be reduced to talk of other things, but no independent moral facts. You might agree with subjectivists.
"Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical belief that ethical sentences reduce to factual statements about the attitudes and/or conventions of individual people. An ethical subjectivist might propose, for example, that what it means for something to be morally right is just for it to be approved of. (This can lead to the belief that different things are right according to each idiosyncratic moral outlook.) Another kind of ethical subjectivist might define "good" as "that which I desire".
"Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical belief that ethical sentences reduce to factual statements about the attitudes and/or conventions of individual people. An ethical subjectivist might propose, for example, that what it means for something to be morally right is just for it to be approved of. (This can lead to the belief that different things are right according to each idiosyncratic moral outlook.) Another kind of ethical subjectivist might define "good" as "that which I desire".
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Date: 2007-01-21 20:51 (UTC)From:Prescriptivism
You scored 10 Objectivism, 42 Naturalism, and 43 Cognitivism!
You don't think there are moral facts, moral propositions, or any way to reduce moralistic talk. How iconoclastic of you. Likely, you'd agree with prescriptivist philosophers. Stanford says: Prescriptivists suggest that moral judgements are a species of prescriptive utterance and that prescriptions are distinct from assertions, even when they have the grammatical form of assertions. Early prescriptivists thought that this had radical implications for moral reasoning and argument. Carnap suggested that moral judgements are equivalent to relatively simple imperatives. The statement ‘Killing is evil’ means the same thing as ‘Do not kill.’ On that basis he claimed that there could be no moral knowledge or error.
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