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A Critical Study on A. J. Ayer's Emotivism
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A. J. 에이어의 정의주의에 대한 비판적 고찰

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Academic journal
Author
Lyou Jihan (한국교원대학교)
Journal
The Korean Ethics Studies Association 윤리연구 윤리연구 제1권 제111호 KCI Accredited Journals
Published
2016.12
Pages
1 - 30 (30page)
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.15801/je.1.111.201612.1

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A Critical Study on A. J. Ayer's Emotivism
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A. J. Ayer applied verification principle of logical positivism to moral terms, as a result developed the emotivist metaethical theory. According to emotivism, moral judgements are literally meaningless, so have not truth-aptness because they are neither analytic nor empirically verifiable(non-cognitivism thesis). Moral judgements are used not to describe something but to express emotions, so have emotive meaning. They are cognitively meaningless, but emotively meaningful(non-descriptivism). Therefore, there is neither moral truth and moral facts nor moral disagreement(moral anti-realism thesis), so there is no proceeding rational arguments over moral values(moral irrationalism thesis). Ayer’s emotivism is a radical theory which thoroughly rejects fundamental presuppositions as cognitivism, moral realism, and rationalism on which traditional ethical theories were based. Ayer’s emotivism contributed to development of metaethics in that it directed our attention toward non-naturalist·anti-intuitionist ethics and non-descriptivist ethics, and in that it found out practicality of moral judgements by showing their emotive meaning. However, it made a mistake of accepting irrationalism in moral arguments. In conclusion, his emotivism was the vanguard theory which opened the door of new thinking and vision in metaethics in those times.

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