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• Sentiment created our belief in right and wrong.
• Actions are based on feelings only.
• We all have common feelings for other people’s welfare- not come from
reason, we can’t move from a fact to a moral duty.
• In other words- just because a business is corrupt this does not mean we
ought to report its practice- the only thing compelling us to do this is our
sense of sentiment
, LOGICAL POSITIVISTS
• Challenged metaphysical philosophy and normative ethics
• Wanted to use scientific methods- they said that meaningful statements fell
into 2 categories- apriori analytic truths and synthetic aposteriori truths-
developed the verification principle- rules out the possibility of there ever
being an ethical fact
• Sentiment created our belief in right and wrong.
• Actions are based on feelings only.
• We all have common feelings for other people’s welfare- not come from
reason, we can’t move from a fact to a moral duty.
• In other words- just because a business is corrupt this does not mean we
ought to report its practice- the only thing compelling us to do this is our
sense of sentiment
, LOGICAL POSITIVISTS
• Challenged metaphysical philosophy and normative ethics
• Wanted to use scientific methods- they said that meaningful statements fell
into 2 categories- apriori analytic truths and synthetic aposteriori truths-
developed the verification principle- rules out the possibility of there ever
being an ethical fact
