Positions at all, but ejaculation? or commands which areĭesigned to provoke the reader to action of a certain sort.Īccordingly, they do not belong to any branch of philo. The exhortations to moral virtue are not pro. Scribe the phenomena of moral experience, and theirĬauses, must be assigned to the science of psychology, or Lating to the definitions of ethical terms, can be said toĬonstitute ethical philosophy. In fact, it is easy to see that only the first of our fourĬlasses, namely that which comprises the propositions re. Often very difficult to tell from ihcir works what it is that Nored by ethical philosophers with the result that it Is It is unfortunately the case that the distinctionīetween these four classes, plain as it is, is commonly ig. And, lastly, there are actual ethical judge. Propositions describing the phenomena of moral experi-Įnce, and their causes. Or possibility of certain definition*, Secondly, there are Tioiis of ethical terms, or judgements about the legitimacy There are, first of all, propositions which express defini. We may divide them, indeed, into four main classes. Of metaphysics, and analyses of non-ethical concepts t itsĪctual ethical contents arc themselves of very different Works of ethical philosophers, is very far from being a The ordinary system of ethics, as elaborated in the What is said about them will be found toĪpply, mutatis mutandis, to the case of aesthetic state. la maintaining this view, we mayĬonfine ourselves for the present to the case of ethical Not scientific, they are not in the literal sense significant,īut are simply expressions of emotion which can be ‘scientific’ statements and that in so far as they are We shall set ourselves to show that in so faxĪs statements of value are significant, they are ordinary Tory in itself and consistent with our general empiricist In face of this objection, it is our business to give anĪccount of ‘judgements of value’ which is both satisfac.

Genuine synthetic propositions, but that they cannot withĪny show of justice be represented as hypotheses, whichĪre used to predict the course of our sensations and, ac-Ĭordingly, that the existence of ethics and aesthetics asīranches of speculative knowledge presents an insuper-Īble objection to our radical empiricist thesis. It will be said that ‘statements of value’ are Tions of empirical fact, and that which relates to questions

Ledge is of two distinct kinds – that which relates to ques. On the common supposition that our speculative know. There is still one objection to be met before we canĬlaim to have justified our view that all synthetic pro. Source CHAPTER 6 CRITIQUE OF ETHICS AND THEOLOGY

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