metaethics

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• For people who are interested in thinking seriously about these questions, I think a good first thing to do would be to run a search for metaethics on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/).

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• I have been thinking a lot about metaethics and how I ought to live my life.

• One thing that people talk about in metaethics is which of these should we believe?

• A paper describing the complementary nature of the two approaches to metaethics sounds like a good idea.

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• One is that I am, in fact, an error theorist as that is understood in contemporary metaethics.

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• If people like that, then it might be good to buy a book that would serve as an introduction to metaethics, maybe an anthology, or a textbook.

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• However, unless you have similar foundational worries about the methods used by philosophers working in metaethics, you shouldn't be similarly inclined to trust your conclusions over theirs.

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• I wouldn't be surprised if there are substantive theories in metaethics that might seem plausible to people who haven't given them serious thought, but which philosophers have come to reject.

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• In metaethics, philosophers examine the fundamental principles that guide our moral judgments.

• She read several articles in metaethics to better understand the debates surrounding moral reasoning.

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