emotivism

British  

/ ɪˈməʊtɪˌvɪzəm /

noun

1. Also called: boo-hurrah theory.  ethics the theory that moral utterances do not have a truth value but express the feelings of the speaker, so that murder is wrong is equivalent to down with murder Compare prescriptivism descriptivism

---

Example Sentences

In the 19th century, British philosophers coined the term “emotivism.”

From Seattle Times

MacIntyre wrote, “Emotivism is the doctrine that all evaluative judgments and, more specifically, all moral judgments are nothing but expressions of preference, expressions of attitude or feeling.”

From Seattle Times

We may have a culture in which the working class is encouraged to imitate what are sold as key upper-class values — sexual permissiveness and self-fashioning, spirituality and emotivism — when really the upper class is also held together by a kind of secret traditionalism, without whose binding power family life ends up coming apart even faster.

From Seattle Times