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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

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Contemporary moral philosophers often argue against emotivism because it means that values are dependent on individuals’ feelings and thus are completely subjective.

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