On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:30:55 -0500 c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> writes:
> Jim Farmelant
>
>
> So, is it to safe to say that Carrol is advancing a noncognitivist,
> if
> not emotivist, view of esthetic and moral judgments? As I recall,
> I.A.
> Richards popularized an emotivist account of esthetic judgments
> some
> eighty or ninety years ago. And his account, apparently had some
> influence on those logical positivists who proposed similar
> accounts
> of moral judgments.
>
> ^^^^
> CB: Who proposed " boo./rah" theory ? G.E. Moore ?
No, Moore was an intuitionist. He held that we could know by intuition that certain things like pleasure and beauty were goods in themselves. Emotivism, started, with I.A. Richards, as a theory of esthetic judgments, and was made into a theory of moral judgments by A.J. Ayer in his book, "Language, Truth, and Logic," and by C.L. Stevenson in his book, "Ethics and Language." I think it was R.M. Hare who pejoratively called emotivism, the "booh/hooray" theory. But Hare's prescriptivism is still a kind of noncognitivism, but which differed from the emotivisms of Ayer and Stevenson, because of its emphasis on the universilizability of moral judgments.
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