Emotivism

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The doctrine, associated with logical positivism, that value judgments in general, and ethical judgments in particular, express emotions rather than representing facts.

See also Empiricismand Ethics

Everything is sacred	booyah	C. L. Stevenson	Logical Positivism
Communitarianism	Alasdair MacIntyre's Disquieting Suggestion	Philippa Foot	Ethics
Intuitionism	A superfluous debate	ethical subjectivism	expressivism
A.J. Ayer	Philosophy and Hedonism	prescriptivism	empiricism
meta-ethics	Alasdair MacIntyre's Reconstructive Project: Practice, Narrative and Tradition	The Great Soprendo	Perspectives in Psychology
Frankfurt School	Herbert Marcuse	emotion	Ethical

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