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In metaphilosophy and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, ground, and meaning of moral judgment, ethical belief, or values.It is one of the three branches of ethics generally studied by philosophers, the others being normative ethics (questions of how one ought to be and act) and applied ethics (practical questions of right behavior in given, usually contentious, situations).
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Cornell realism is a view in meta-ethics, associated with the work of Richard Boyd, Nicholas Sturgeon, and David Brink, who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University.There is no recognized and official statement of Cornell realism, but several theses are associated with the view.
The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right, full text of the introduction and part I of the Metaphysics of Morals. An explanation of the division between the two parts, and what Kant means by virtue. Die Metaphysik der Sitten, full German text of the Metaphysics of Morals (from ...
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While Hare was primarily interested in meta-ethics, he also made some important contributions to the fields of political philosophy and applied ethics. Among his essays within these fields those on the morality of slavery, abortion [ 19 ] and the Golden Rule , and on demi-vegetarianism have received the most attention.
Moral rationalism, also called ethical rationalism, is a view in meta-ethics (specifically the epistemology of ethics) according to which moral principles are knowable a priori, by reason alone. [1] Some prominent figures in the history of philosophy who have defended moral rationalism are Plato and Immanuel Kant.
Metaepistemology is a relatively modern term and probably originated at some point in the 20th century. [2] Dominique Kuenzle identifies Roderick Firth as possibly coining it in a 1959 article discussing the views of Roderick Chisholm on the ethics of belief. [3]