What is meant by 'goodness'?

Meta-Ethical Theories

Content

• naturalism

• intuitionism

• emotivism

Key Knowledge

• what it is (the belief that values can be defined in terms of some natural property in the world) and its application to absolutism

• what it is (the belief that basic moral truths are indefinable but self-evident) and its application to the term good

• what it is (the belief that ethical terms evince approval or disapproval) and its application to relativism