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Mapping metaethics (with Lance Bush)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Nature of Moral Truth

The biggest topic within meta ethics is the nature of moral truth. A stance in this case refers to the values, standards, preferences that a real or hypothetical agent could have about what's morally right or wrong. So you could say something like murder is wrong that could be true or false relative to my standards and so on. But we could even talk in principle about what the standards of say a holy book that has particular sorts of rules laid out in it.

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