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单词 emotivism
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Definition of emotivism in English:

emotivism

noun ɪˈməʊtɪvɪz(ə)m
mass nounPhilosophy
  • An ethical theory which regards ethical and value judgements as expressions of feeling or attitude and prescriptions of action, rather than assertions or reports of anything.

    〔哲〕情感主义,情感论

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Analytic ethics has been very fairly impoverished given the postivist legacy of emotivism, the formalism of Kantian ethics and the technicalism of utilitarianism.
    • The logical positivists who dealt with ethics put forward a view called emotivism.
    • The downside of the Catholic approach is that it can tend to dismiss all appeals to living discipleship as emotivism.
    • Thompson was no fan of Orwell, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
    • There's little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory.
    • In such logical analysis ethics could be dismissed as a species of emotivism.
    • If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgement require the motivation not present in the amoralist.

Derivatives

  • emotivist

  • noun
    Philosophy
    • He put forward an emotivist theory of ethics, one that he never abandoned.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Logical Positivists loosely subscribed to an emotivist theory of meaning in connection with aesthetic, as well as moral terms.
      • Whether this is sufficient to count such theories as emotivist or non-cognitivist is open to dispute, but many proponents of such views do call themselves non-cognitivists and emotivists.
      • By implication, Sumner sounds here like a logical positivist, or perhaps a supporter of logical positivism's parallel outlook within the subfield of ethics, an emotivist.
      • Spinoza gave what would now be called an emotivist theory of moral judgement.

Definition of emotivism in US English:

emotivism

nouniˈmodiˌvizəm
Philosophy
  • An ethical theory that regards ethical and value judgments as expressions of feeling or attitude and prescriptions of action, rather than assertions or reports of anything.

    〔哲〕情感主义,情感论

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There's little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory.
    • The downside of the Catholic approach is that it can tend to dismiss all appeals to living discipleship as emotivism.
    • The logical positivists who dealt with ethics put forward a view called emotivism.
    • Analytic ethics has been very fairly impoverished given the postivist legacy of emotivism, the formalism of Kantian ethics and the technicalism of utilitarianism.
    • If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgement require the motivation not present in the amoralist.
    • Thompson was no fan of Orwell, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
    • In such logical analysis ethics could be dismissed as a species of emotivism.
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