Imagine that you're arguing with a Nazi -- and you reach an impasse on some basic moral principle. Maybe you hold that all races are to be treated with respect, while he thinks that his race is to be treated better.
Emotivism sees this difference between you and the Nazi as a difference in
Imagine that you're arguing with a Nazi -- and you reach an impasse on some basic moral principle. Maybe you hold that all races are to be treated with respect, while he thinks that his race is to be treated better.
Emotivism sees this difference between you and the Nazi as a difference in
Intuitionism sees it this way. But emotivism sees the difference as emotional.
Imagine that you're arguing with a Nazi -- and you reach an impasse on some basic moral principle. Maybe you hold that all races are to be treated with respect, while he thinks that his race is to be treated better.
Emotivism sees this difference between you and the Nazi as a difference in
Emotivism says that we can go further by appealing, not to reason, but to emotion. We can try to change the Nazi's feelings about other races.
Of course, the Nazi can try to change our feelings too. Historically, the Nazis were extraordinarily good at manipulating emotions. So the emotivist model of moral thinking would seem to lead to propaganda wars, in which each side, unable to resort to reason, simply tries to manipulate the feelings of the other side.
Imagine that you're arguing with a Nazi -- and you reach an impasse on some basic moral principle. Maybe you hold that all races are to be treated with respect, while he thinks that his race is to be treated better.
Emotivism sees this difference between you and the Nazi as a difference in
Emotivism sees the difference as emotional.