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Moral anti - realism (Error Theory (A claim is objective if (Something we…

- - - - Property of right/wrong does not exist
      - No moral properties
        
        This is the error we make
        
        Ethical language rests on mistake
  - - - Defend the claims that moral judgements can be true
      - Can know some true moral judgements and that moral properties are real, so they are part of reality
      - Moral judgements are mind - independent was ambiguous
      - He had misunderstood what it is for a moral property to be objective
- - - - I disapprove of
      - I think X is wrong
      - Psychological fact
      - Reductive moral naturalism
      - Cannot make mistakes about what is rights and wrong
        
        Approval
        
        Object
        
        Naturally think people can make mistakes
        
        No sense of deliberation
        
        Cognitive
  - - - Arouse feelings in others
        
        Act in certain ways
  - - - Honest is not just description
    - - Purpose is not to state facts
      - Influence how we behave through expression
      - Moral terms are dynamic
    - - Connects care, approval etc with meaning of ethical words
- - - - Imperative that tell someone to do something
        
        Explicitly state what to do
        
        To accept an imperative is to do the action
      - Value judgements
        
        Good
        
        Commend something to someone
        
        Provides guidance
  - - - Nothing about being honest can make me commend honesty
      - Nothing about facts can entail a moral judgement
    - - Set of standards we rely on
      - No facts that establish one set of moral standards as objectively correct
        
        Adopt these standards
        
        Not part of the world
    - - Picks up on the qualities that the something must have to be good
      - If we have two identical things, we cannot call one good and not the other
    - - Describe not commend
        
        Honesty
- - - - Universalise moral judgements