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... judgments and more specifically all moral judgments are nothing but expressions of preference , expressions of attitude or feeling , insofar as they are moral or evaluative ... moral judgment Moral Disagreement and the Claims of Emotivism 11.
... judgments and more specifically all moral judgments are nothing but expressions of preference , expressions of attitude or feeling , insofar as they are moral or evaluative ... moral judgment Moral Disagreement and the Claims of Emotivism 11.
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... moral judgment is not to be secured by any rational method , for there are none . It is to be secured , if at all ... judgments not only to express our own feelings and attitudes , but also precisely to produce such effects in others .
... moral judgment is not to be secured by any rational method , for there are none . It is to be secured , if at all ... judgments not only to express our own feelings and attitudes , but also precisely to produce such effects in others .
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... moral judgments as factual statements . Moreover the secularisation of morality by the Enlightenment had put in question the status of moral judgments as ostensible reports of divine law . Even Kant , who still understands moral judgments ...
... moral judgments as factual statements . Moreover the secularisation of morality by the Enlightenment had put in question the status of moral judgments as ostensible reports of divine law . Even Kant , who still understands moral judgments ...
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