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Mapping metaethics (with Lance Bush)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Terminology in Metaethics

When someone says they believe in objective moral truth, is that the same as saying they are a realist? So there's a lot of slipperiness in the terminology that's used in metaethics. I tend to reserve the term universal to refer to the scope of a normative moral principle rather than what makes it true. Even if you're an anti-realist, for instance, a moral relativist, you could still endorse a universal moral rule.

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