meta-ethics

British  

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the philosophical study of questions about the nature of ethical judgment as distinct from questions of normative ethics, for example, whether ethical judgments state facts or express attitudes, whether there are objective standards of morality, and how moral judgments can be justified

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Other Word Forms

• meta-ethical
  adjective

Example Sentences

Determining such clear moralistic/ethical statements has perplexed philosophers for centuries, and it is unlikely that a person could articulate a coherent set of meta-ethics for themselves within Arete.

From Slate • May 27, 2023

Implicit in Burton’s story is the idea that the meta-ethics are linguistic in nature and translatable into logic compatible with Arete’s code base.

From Slate • May 27, 2023

This, again, is meta-ethics: Are the things we consider morals natural properties?

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2015