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meta-ethics

meta-ethics is the alternative spelling of metaethics.

Meaning of metaethics

Noun

metaethics (uncountable)

  1. The study of the nature and meaning of moral judgments, and the foundations and the possibility of ethical reasoning as such.
    • However, he holds that ethics is not capable of proving cruelty—or happiness, for that matter—to be either good or bad. This view of the limitations of the reasoning of normative ethics belongs to metaethics.1985, Kenneth Blackwell, The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell, volume 1, →ISBN, page 6

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Meta-ethics is the alternative spelling of metaethics.

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