Emotivism (also known as the hurrah/boo theory) is the meta-ethical view which claims that: Ethical sentences don't express propositions. Instead, ethical sentences express emotional attitudes.Ogden and Richards, Meaning, 125: "'Good' is alleged to stand for a unique, unanalyzable concept … [which] is the subject matter of ethics. This peculiar ethical use of 'good' is, we suggest, a purely emotive use. … Thus, when we so use it in the sentence, 'This is good,' we merely refer to thi… (More on Emotivism) |