10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOO-HURRAH THEORY»
Discover the use of
boo-hurrah theory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
boo-hurrah theory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know
In a series of accessible and engaging essays, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have troubled the minds of ...
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Understanding Philosophy for AS Level
This is why the theory has been known as the 'boo-hurrah theory of ethics'.
However, if all that is going on is that I am saying 'boo' to something and you are
saying 'hurrah' to the same thing, where is the disagreement? There would seem
to ...
Christopher Hamilton, 2003
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The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy
Nicholas Bunnin, Jiyuan Yu. boo-hurrah theory 87 88 Boole, George. originally
animates in its own way the spectacle of what is perceived. Our perception
depends on our body's place in the world. Body is in primordial contact with
being and ...
Nicholas Bunnin, Jiyuan Yu, 2008
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OCR Religious Ethics for AS and A2
Emotivism is sometimes known as the Boo/Hurrah theory as in saying 'murder is
wrong' we are saying 'boo to murder', and in saying 'giving to charity is good' we
are saying 'hurrah for giving to charity': The presence of an ethical symbol in a ...
Jill Oliphant, Jon Mayled, 2010
This is why the theory is sometimes referred to as 'Boo-Hurrah' Theory. To
continue with our example: Statement: 'Abortion is wrong' or 'I disapprove of
abortion' Response: 'Boo!' Statement: 'Abortion is O.K.' or 'I approve of abortion' ...
Peter Vardy, Paul Grosch, 1997
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Tom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern
AsJill Oliphant, Jon Mayled, “Emotivism [the ethical theory most commonly linked
to logical positivism] is sometimes known as the Boo/Hurrah theory, as in saying '
murder is wrong' we are saying 'boo to murder,' and in saying 'giving to charity ...
Daniel Keith Jernigan, 2012
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The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics
... ethics is an empirical science; (ii) are meaningless; or (iii) express emotions or
feelings. Hence the infamous “Boo–Hurrah” theory of ethics, on which to say that
some act is odious is to say “Boo hiss!” to it and to say that some act is good is to
...
Robin Le Poidevin, Professor of Philosophy Peter Simons, McGonigal Andrew, 2009
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Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction
... when they witness the gratuitous infliction of pain is simply an expression of the
fact that they don't happen to like it? Such was the doctrine of the 'emotivists' in
ethical theory, sometimes called the 'boo/hurrah' theory of moral judgements.
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Encyclopedia of Ethics: P-W
1207 Bond, Edward J., revolution, 1497 Bonnicksen, Andrea L., reproductive
technologies, 1476, 1477 boo-hurrah theory of ethics, twentieth- century Anglo-
American ethics, 768 Book of Changes (/ Ching). China, 214, 215,218 Book of
Rites ...
Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker, 2001
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Morality Without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism
(A. J. Ayer's own version of emotivism became dubbed the 'Boo — Hurrah theory'
of moral discourse.) By contrast, prescriptivists like R. M. Hare argued that the
primary function of moral discourse was to advise or to tell someone what to do ...
