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metaethics Meaning & Definition

What Does Metaethics Mean?

As a noun, metaethics means The study of the nature and meaning of moral judgments, and the foundations and the possibility of ethical reasoning as such.

Metaethics Definition (Noun)

  1. The study of the nature and meaning of moral judgments, and the foundations and the possibility of ethical reasoning as such.

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Word Forms & Grammar

metaethics (uncountable)

Origin of Metaethics

From meta- + ethics. First attested in the 1930s.

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