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emotivism

A philosophical position in the theory of ethics. Emotivists deny that moral judgements can be true or false, maintaining that they merely express an attitude or an emotional response.

The concept came to prominence during the 1930s, largely under the influence of Language, Truth and Logic 1936 by the English philosopher A J Ayer.



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In the realm of practices the authority of both goods and standards operates in such a way as to rule out all subjectivist and emotivist analyses of judgment (MacIntyre 1981:190).
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A prescriptivist would agree with an emotivist in that ethical statements do not have factual truth value but are attitudinal but would not agree with the emotivist that ethical statements should acceptable or not acceptable, but that an individual needs to control his or her emotions so that the individual can make principled judgments which can be universally applicable in making ethical decisions.
The use of civic engagement to build trust in governance by Bauser, William W. / Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
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