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STOP DOING METAETHICS - YEARS OF PHILOSOPHIZING yet all we have done is NATURALIZED DEAD POLITICS - "oh but what grounds the grounds of the grounding" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged - want normative orientation? we have a tool for that: it's called TALK TO SOMEONE TRUSTED/EXPERIENCED
flowchart of main metaethical theories AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY METAETHICS by Alexander Miller, pg. 8 do moral judgements expres beliefs? cognitivism / non-cognitivism ayer's emotivism blackburn's quasi-realism gibbard's norm-expressivism are those beliefs at least sometimes true? do those beliefs concern facts that are constitutively independent of human opinion? mackie's error theory are those facts natural facts? judgement-dependent accounts naturalism / non-naturalism are moral facts reducible to other natural facts? moore / mcdowell ralton's reductionism analytic functionalism cornell realism