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cultural relativism
Principle that people's beliefs and activities should be interpreted in terms of their own culture
descriptive theory
An explanation is a set of statements constructed to describe a set of facts which clarifies the causes, context, and consequences of those facts. This description may establish rules or laws, and may clarify the existing ones in relation to any objects, or phenomena examined.
emotivism
an ethical theory that regards ethical and value judgments as expressions of feeling or attitude and prescriptions of action, rather than assertions or reports of anything.
epistemology
A branch of philosophy that investigates the origins, nature, method and limitations of human knowledge
ethical relativism
A moral theory which holds that individuals must decide what is ethical based on their own feelings about what is right and wrong
ethical subjectivism
The meta-ethical view which claims that: Ethical sentences express propositions. Some such propositions are true. Those propositions are about the attitudes of people.
knowledge vs. opinion
Subjective (Subject to your opinion) and Objective (statement about an Object.
Metaethics
A branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is.
metaphysics
The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value.
moral feature
Types of ethical descriptions or thoughts: such as right
and wrong.
and wrong.
universalism
A term used to state that everyone shares the same ideas, be it morally or religiously, they are stated to all be alike.