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Meta-ethics (Naturalism (Philippa Foot (We know what a '…

- - - - Goodness = Real thing/natural fact
  - - - The belief that pleasure is good and nothing else is the. 'Good' and 'pleasure' are interchangeable terms.
  - - - Same way we can see virtues in the natural world, an animal can be an excellent example or defective
  - - - Is/ought problem
      - Moral judgments come from our perception and mind
        
        NOT Facts that exist by themelves
      - The Treatise of Human Nature
    - - Right and wrong can't be experienced through the senses
        
        Morality is NOT Observable
- - - - G E MOORE
        
        Principia Ethica
        
        The Open Question
        
        We can say something has a natural quality, such as pleasure, yet we can still significantly ask whether that something is good
        
        The Naturalistic Fallacy
        
        The alleged error of assuming that the good is some natural quality
        
        'Goodness' is a simple notion
        
        Yellow = Yellow
        
        Can't be defined. It just is
        
        "We know what yellow is and can recognize it whenever it is seen, but we cannot actually define yellow in the same way, we know what good is, but we cannot actually define"
  - - - foundational moral principles
      - Beneficence - An act which benefit others
      - Non-maleficence - Not being harmful
- - - - Doesn't mean they are meaningless!
      - A statement needs to be able top be proven empirically for it to have meaning
    - - Liked=good
        Disliked= Bad
  - - - If A supports euthanasia and B doesn't then they are disagreeing on the fundamental issues
  - - - Emotivism confusem meaning with use
      - Emotivism is not useful when distinguish morality and feelings about other things ie taste in music and food.