metaethics

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The study of the nature and meaning of moral judgments, and the foundations and the possibility of ethical reasoning as such. uncountable
    — However, he holds that ethics is not capable of proving cruelty—or happiness, for that matter—to be either good or bad. This view of the limitations of the reasoning of normative ethics belongs to metaethics.

词形变化

meta-ethics alternative metaëthics alternative metethics alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English ethics
English metaethics
From meta- + ethics. First attested in the 1930s.
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