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Religion and Ethics (Units 2 and 4)
Quick questions on Meta-ethics: naturalism, intuitionism and emotivism - WJEC A-Level Religious Studies
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What is intuitionism?Show answer
Intuitionism keeps morality objective while avoiding the naturalistic fallacy. Its weakness is the obscurity of intuition: it does not explain how we intuit good, why intuitions conflict across people and cultures, or how to settle such conflicts.
What is model paragraph?Show answer
The most troubling objection to emotivism is that it seems to strip moral judgements of the authority we take them to have: if "the Holocaust was evil" only expresses revulsion and tries to spread it, then it is not true, and there is apparently no fact of the matter that the persecutors got wrong. This consequence strikes many as a decisive cost, since we ordinarily think such judgements are not merely strong feelings but correct. Emotivists respond on two fronts.
What is q1?Show answer
What is the difference between cognitive and non-cognitive theories? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is the naturalistic fallacy? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Evaluate the view that moral statements are nothing more than expressions of emotion. [20 marks]
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