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Metaethics

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Topical headingMetaethics
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Variant(s)Meta-ethics
See alsoEthics
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Found inWork cat: Oxford studies in metaethics
Stanford encyclopedia of ethics (online): (Metaethics is the attempt to understand the metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological, presuppositions and commitments of moral thought, talk, and practice.)
Encyclopedia of philosophy, 2006: p. 155 (Metaethics addresses second-order questions about the meaning and status of moral judgments.)
Web 3: (Metaethics, discipline dealing with the foundations of ethics, specif. with the nature of normative utterances and ethical justification)
McCloskey, Henry John. Meta-ethics and normative ethics, 1969.