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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF META-ETHICS

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Meta-Ethics is a noun.
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WHAT DOES META-ETHICS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Meta-ethics

Meta-ethics is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties, statements, attitudes, and judgments. Meta-ethics is one of the four branches of ethics generally recognized by philosophers, the others being descriptive ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. While normative ethics addresses such questions as "What should one do?", thus endorsing some ethical evaluations and rejecting others, meta-ethics addresses questions such as "What is goodness?" and "How can we tell what is good from what is bad?", seeking to understand the nature of ethical properties and evaluations. Some theorists argue that a metaphysical account of morality is necessary for the proper evaluation of actual moral theories and for making practical moral decisions; others reason from opposite premises and suggest that we must impart ideas of moral intuition onto proper action before we can give a proper account of morality's metaphysics.

Definition of meta-ethics in the English dictionary

The definition of meta-ethics in the dictionary is the philosophical study of questions about the nature of ethical judgment as distinct from questions of normative ethics, for example, whether ethical judgments state facts or express attitudes, whether there are objective standards of morality, and how moral judgments can be justified.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE META-ETHICS

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WORDS THAT END LIKE META-ETHICS

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Synonyms and antonyms of meta-ethics in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «meta-ethics» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF META-ETHICS

Find out the translation of meta-ethics to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of meta-ethics from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «meta-ethics» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

元伦理学
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la meta-ética
570 millions of speakers

English

meta-ethics
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मेटा नैतिकता
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الفوقية الأخلاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мета- этика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meta-ética
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মেটা-নৈতিকতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

méta-éthique
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Translator English - Malay

Meta-etika
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Meta- Ethik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

メタ倫理
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

메타 윤리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Meta-etika
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

meta - đạo đức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெட்டா நெறிமுறைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेटा-आचारसंहिता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Meta-etik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

meta -etica
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Translator English - Polish

meta- etyka
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Translator English - Ukrainian

мета- етика
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Translator English - Romanian

meta- etica
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Translator English - Greek

μετα - ηθική
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Translator English - Afrikaans

meta- etiek
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

metaetik
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

meta- etikk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of meta-ethics

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «META-ETHICS»

The term «meta-ethics» is normally little used and occupies the 127.128 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «META-ETHICS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about meta-ethics

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «META-ETHICS»

Discover the use of meta-ethics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to meta-ethics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics
Ontologized Ethics is a collection of essays in meta-ethics with an emphasis on philosophical discourse in the African context.
Elvis Imafidon, John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji, 2013
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Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology ...
This long awaited collection comprises some of the most influential of Smith's essays.
Michael Smith, 2004
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Meta-Ethics, Moral Objectivity and Law
The book shows the relevance of meta-ethical and metaphysical considerations to determine the nature of law and the connection between objective moral and legal judgements.
Veronica Rodríguez-Blanco, 2004
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Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre: Relativism, ...
MacIntyre's question challenges the canons of modern moral philosophy because it challenges the traditional distinction between the levels of moral theory: morality, normative ethics, and meta-ethics. Modern moral theorists have long held ...
Christopher Stephen Lutz, 2009
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Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction
This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy.
Dale Jamieson, 2008
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Ethics: Selections from Classic and Contemporary Writers
META-ETHICS To this point we have been surveying the field of normative ethics. A normative ethical theory develops a substantive account of the nature of good and bad, the basic principles of right and wrong, the nature of the virtues, and ...
Oliver Johnson, Andrews Reath, 2011
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Maimonides and Philosophy
Warren. Zev. Harvey. Ethics. and. Meta-Ethics,. Aesthetics. and. Meta-Aesthetics. in. Maimonides. 1. Maimonides' relativistic or subjectivistic definition of "good" is well known. "'Good' is an expression applied by us to what conforms to our ...
S. Pines, Y. Yovel, 1986
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Descartes Reinvented
'meta-eptstemology' versus 'normative eptstemology' It is sometimes thought that that, while distinct, the projects of analysing knowledge and answering scepticism are related systematically, indeed related as meta-ethics is related to ...
Tom Sorell, 2005
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Evaluating New Technologies: Methodological Problems for the ...
Often a distinction is made between applied ethics, normative ethics, descriptive ethics and meta-ethics. Applied ethics deals with moral questions concerning specific contested practices (as a general term for bioethics, environmental ethics , ...
Paul Sollie, Marcus Düwell, 2009
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An Introduction to Ethics
This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of the great ethical works of Western philosophy.
John Deigh, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «META-ETHICS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term meta-ethics is used in the context of the following news items.
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Debating Homosexuality
It is just that liberal ethics and meta-ethics do not make much of this type of visceral sentiment. This is a significant oversight considering that if ... «MuslimMatters, Jul 15»
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Opinionator | Can Moral Disputes Be Resolved?
The pessimism is part of what has led to meta-ethics, a subdiscipline of philosophy that may shed light on why moral disputes are so intractable ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Guest Post: Impractical ethics
This post is not, as one might expect, about that part of ethics which is not concerned about practical issues, e.g. meta-ethics. Neither is it about ... «Practical Ethics, Jul 15»
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5 Cool Online Courses To Take This Summer
The videos and assignments of the course will explore meta-ethics and normative ethical theories, poverty and affluence, and how much we ... «Uloop News, Jun 15»
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Casas exhibit too big for one gallery
From left, Humanscape 63 (Show of Hands), Humanscape 49 (Meta-Ethics), Humanscape 73 (Chicano Image on the Move), Humanscape 47 ... «San Antonio Express-News, Jun 15»
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Poet-novelist and Neuroscientist-explorer Launch Commencement …
Selim Berker, Loeb associate professor of the humanities in the philosophy department, who specializes in meta-ethics and epistemology. «Harvard Magazine, May 15»
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Half of Atheist Kids Wind Up Believing
She took a seminar on meta-ethics, and plunged into the works of C.S. Lewis, Augustine, Aquinas, and Descartes, ultimately deciding that her ... «Daily Beast, May 15»
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What Book Shaped Your Moral Sensibilities? [2015 ITT]
... by a number of books, including Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save and the blog Less Wrong, which has discussions on meta-ethics. «Patheos, Apr 15»
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The Secret God of the Secularists
You are conflating the sociology of morals with meta-ethics, though, and that leads to severe deficiencies. And for the record, moral reasoning ... «The American Conservative, Mar 15»
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Is Common Core Really Teaching Children to Be Moral Monsters?
... them as objective facts or understand them as matters of opinion? (Scholars call this question one of “meta-ethics.”) (Continued from Page 1). «Slate Magazine, Mar 15»

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