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Does objectivism entail intolerance? Emotivism also provides a curious account of how reasons function in moral discourse. Our commonsense view is that a moral judgment is the kind of thing that makes a claim about moral properties and that such a claim can be supported by reasons. If someone asserts “Euthanasia is wrong,” we may […]

Emotivism also provides a curious account of how reasons function in moral discourse. Our commonsense view is that a moral judgment is the kind of thing that makes a claim about moral properties and that such a claim can be supported by reasons. If someone asserts “Euthanasia is wrong,” we may sensibly ask her what

  Emotivists also take an unusual position on moral disagreements. They maintain that moral disagreements are not conflicts of beliefs, as is the case when one person asserts that something is the case and another person asserts that it is not the case. Instead, moral disagreements are disagree- ments in attitude. Jane has positive feelings

What are the moral habits of a given person or group of people, and what causes them to have precisely those habits and feelings? And this enquiry falls wholly within the scope of the existing social sciences.6 28 Á PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS 5A. J. Ayer, “Critique of Ethics and Theology,” in Lan- guage, Truth and

What would such a disagreement amount to? Does it make any sense to say that they could not have been mistaken about the morality of these actions? Cultural relativism also has the peculiar conse- quence that social reformers of every sort would always be wrong. Their culture would be the ulti- mate authority on moral

But what about a disagreement among members of the same society? Does it make any sense to say that they could not have been mistaken about the morality of these actions? Cultural relativism also has the peculiar conse- quence that social reformers of every sort would always be wrong. Their culture would be the ulti-

Does it make any sense to say that they could not have been mistaken about the morality of these actions? Cultural relativism also has the peculiar conse- quence that social reformers of every sort would always be wrong. Their culture would be the ulti- mate authority on moral matters, so if they disagree with their

After all, if all cultures are morally equal, does not cultural relativism both entail and promote tolerance? We should hope that tolerance does reign in a pluralistic world, but there is no necessary connec- tion between tolerance and cultural relativism. For one thing, cultural relativists cannot consistently advocate tolerance. To advocate tolerance is to advocate

If you judge it permissible, are you doing so because you are a cultural relativist? Do you think that FGC is morally permissible? If you judge the practice wrong, are you appealing to some notion of objective morality? If you judge it permissible, are you doing so because you are a cultural relativist? In either

If you judge the practice wrong, are you appealing to some notion of objective morality? Do you think that FGC is morally permissible? If you judge the practice wrong, are you appealing to some notion of objective morality? If you judge it permissible, are you doing so because you are a cultural relativist? In either