So are we opting for some form of non-cognitivism in our metaethics here (emotivism, prescriptivism,or expressivism)?
A.J. Ayer? C.L. Stevenson? R.M. Hare? Richard Rorty?
Jim Farmelant ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How radical was Derrida Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:44:49 -0800
C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Meat eating may be a moral question, i.e., one about which one may be wrong (rather than just expressing a taste). I don't think it is.
Who has the authority to decide who is "wrong" about a moral question? That is always a political question! (And not one decided by philosophers, Plato's visions of grandeur notwithstanding.)
Miles ___________________________________
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