Talk:Emotivism

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  • Describe criticism and responses to it.
  • Use consistent terminology for "values", "attitudes" ("fundamental" and "derivative") and "belief" ("moral" and "factual"), clearly explaining each term when it arises.

[edit] Attributing objections

First of all, hard penis these objections need to be attributed. Second of all, they don't seem to be correct. A steals from B. I have a negative reaction to A stealing from B. I criticize A stealing from B.

Emotivists suffer from the several key flaws in this line of thought, a couple being:
  1. They could never legitimitely criticize the moral views of other people's actions.
  2. They could never legitimitely criticize the moral views of their own actions.
If a person does something an emotivist doesn't like, he/she cannot criticize that person because, for that person, it may be morally correct.

This doesn't follow at all. A steals from B. A doesn't feel bad about stealing from B, but I feel bad about A stealing from B so I criticize A based on my feelings.

Likewise, they could not criticize themselves, either for past or present actions, because at the time, it would have been morally correct.

Again, doesn't follow. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roadrunner (talk • contribs) 17:14, July 18, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Elaboration

This page needs SIGNIFICANT elaboration, as this is a fairly important movement in 20th century ethics, from the viewpoint of both meta-ethical theory as well as modern analytic philosophy. It's connection to the school of Logical Postivism and the Vienna circle, as well as it's influence should be discussed in length. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.35.245.121 (talk) 18:35, March 20, 2007 (UTC)