Topic:Meta-ethics
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Meta-ethics is perhaps one of the most thought about subjects in the history of human consciousness, even if many or indeed most of the participants were not aware of their participation at the time.
As for what meta-ethics actually is allow us to address this from the sides as opposed to head on. We accept that there is a general concensus as to what is morally acceptable and Good and proper. Even the most staunch Consequentialist will agree with Kant himself that murder is wrong for example. The basic ethical theory you may acquire at A-Level for example is just plain ethics.
The role of meta-ethics thus becomes clear, it is nothing short of the grounding, and logical justification for these views, the under-pinning that keeps the fabric of our morality together if you will.
So, you know that murder is wrong for a reason, it is not merely the case that we all woke up last Thursday and found murder to be wrong, we have agreed for centuries, since time-immemorial on moral standards, so let us now together ask the question that has dogged man since before we had dogging to fill the niche.....why?
Meta-ethics studied on it's own is quite mad, you should not engage in meta-ethics without the following safety equipment:
- 1) Reasonable trustworthy reference, believe us most of what you think already is non-sense.
- 2) A peer group, there is no better way to philosophize than with people and actually philosophizing together
- 3) A cup of tea, what better compliment to a good old think!?
- 4) A comfy chair, you will be sitting in it for sometime before you have a thought in your head worth writing down
- 5) A good grounding in the following works:
- The Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, 1785)
- The Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft)
- Anything else you like but Kant is the man
So Philosopher to Philosopher we say, simply, "Sapere Aude."
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