Examine and Critize Emotivism as an Ethical Therory: (10)
The naturalists claimed that morals were part of the natural world and could be discovered using reason. The Logical Positivists were scientific in their methods for verifying knowledge, and here Hume’s influence can be seen in excluding the possibility of moral facts. Hume believed that sentiment was the source of right and wrong, nothing more. Moral judgements are made because of feelings and not reason, and it is not possible to move from a factual statement to a moral one.