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Emotivism and Internalism:
Mahon, James Edwin
Mahon, James Edwin
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In this article I am concerned with the nature of the relationship between the main non-cognitivist movement in ethics in first half the twentieth century, namely emotivism, according to which ethical judgments are the expressions of emotions, and internalism, the position in metaethics that ethical judgments are necessarily motivating in directed ways, such that an agent who judges that an action is ethically right or good is necessarily motivated to some extent to perform that action, and an agent who judges that an action is ethically wrong or bad is necessarily motivated to some extent to refrain from performing that action.
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2005
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