PHIL 201 Study Guide Lesson 22

PHIL 201 Study Guide Lesson 22

Study Guide Lesson 22: The Challenge to Traditional Ethics: Cultural Relativism and Emotivism
Points:
Two implications of the Sumner quote
The distinction between descriptive and normative statements
Problems with the diversity thesis
Problems with the dependency thesis
Problems with ethnocentrism
Holmes’s normative view
The distinction between emotivism and ethical subjectivism
Explain the two philosophical movements that led to emotivism
Stevenson’s theory of the relation between facts and attitudes as a defense for emotivism
Holmes’s three criticisms of emotivism

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Terms:
Cultural Relativism
Diversity Thesis
Dependency Thesis
Ethnocentrism
Emotivism
Ethical Subjectivism
Ethical Intuitionism
Logical Positivism
Cognitive
Non-Cognitive

Study Guide Lesson 22: The Challenge to Traditional Ethics: Cultural Relativism and Emotivism
Points:
Two implications of the Sumner quote
The distinction between descriptive and normative statements
Problems with the diversity thesis
Problems with the dependency thesis
Problems with ethnocentrism
Holmes’s normative view
The distinction between emotivism and ethical subjectivism
Explain the two philosophical movements that led to emotivism
Stevenson’s theory of the relation between facts and attitudes as a defense for emotivism
Holmes’s three criticisms of emotivism

Terms:
Cultural Relativism
Diversity Thesis
Dependency Thesis
Ethnocentrism
Emotivism
Ethical Subjectivism
Ethical Intuitionism
Logical Positivism
Cognitive
Non-Cognitive