Non-objectivism

Non-objectivism



Non-objectivism

Moral diversity and non-objectivism

Ethical non-objectivists hold that there are no objective moral facts, and no objectively true moral principles --- not just that they are difficult to discover, or that we might not be sure what they are; rather, that there are no objective moral truths to discover.

One version of ethical non-objectivism is emotivism, according to which sentences that appear to state ethical facts (such as "stealing is wrong") are, instead, merely expressions of emotion, and not genuine statements at all (Waller, 2008). Most contemporary non-objectivists, however, are not emotivists; they believe that such sentences are statements, but that ...