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    Moral realism holds that objective moral facts exist in the universe and moral statements convey truthful information about these facts. Subjectivism views moral judgments as expressions of personal feelings and attitudes rather than factual claims. Emotivism considers moral claims to be expressions of approval or disapproval rather than providing information. Prescriptivism interprets ethical statements as instructions or recommendations for how one should act.

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    Moral realism holds that objective moral facts exist in the universe and moral statements convey truthful information about these facts. Subjectivism views moral judgments as expressions of personal feelings and attitudes rather than factual claims. Emotivism considers moral claims to be expressions of approval or disapproval rather than providing information. Prescriptivism interprets ethical statements as instructions or recommendations for how one should act.

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    Moral realism holds that objective moral facts exist in the universe and moral statements convey truthful information about these facts. Subjectivism views moral judgments as expressions of personal feelings and attitudes rather than factual claims. Emotivism considers moral claims to be expressions of approval or disapproval rather than providing information. Prescriptivism interprets ethical statements as instructions or recommendations for how one should act.

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    Moral realism

    Moral realism is based on the idea that there are real objective
    moral facts or truths in the universe. Moral statements provide
    factual information about those truths.
    Subjectivism
    Subjectivism teaches that moral judgments are nothing more
    than statements of a person's feelings or attitudes, and that
    ethical statements do not contain factual truths about goodness
    or badness.
    In more detail: subjectivists say that moral statements are
    statements about the feelings, attitudes and emotions that that
    particular person or group has about a particular issue.
    If a person says something is good or bad they are telling us
    about the positive or negative feelings that they have about
    that something.
    So if someone says 'murder is wrong' they are telling us that
    they disapprove of murder.
    These statements are true if the person does hold the
    appropriate attitude or have the appropriate feelings. They are
    false if the person doesn't.
    Emotivism
    Emotivism is the view that moral claims are no more than
    expressions of approval or disapproval.
    This sounds like subjectivism, but in emotivism a moral
    statement doesn't provide information about the speaker's
    feelings about the topic but expresses those feelings.

    When an emotivist says "murder is wrong" it's like saying


    "down with murder" or "murder, yecch!" or just saying
    "murder" while pulling a horrified face, or making a thumbsdown gesture at the same time as saying "murder is wrong".
    So when someone makes a moral judgement they show their
    feelings about something. Some theorists also suggest that in
    expressing a feeling the person gives an instruction to others
    about how to act towards the subject matter.
    Prescriptivism
    Prescriptivists think that ethical statements are instructions or
    recommendations.
    So if I say something is good, I'm recommending you to do it,
    and if I say something is bad, I'm telling you not to do it.
    There is almost always a prescriptive element in any real-world
    ethical statement: any ethical statement can be reworked (with
    a bit of effort) into a statement with an 'ought' in it. For
    example: "lying is wrong" can be rewritten as "people ought
    not to tell lies".

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