Read : Approaching Moral Decisions, “Cultural Relativism” and “Emotivist Ethics.” As you do, consider the following questions and points:
· Two implications of the Sumner quote.
· The distinction between descriptive and normative statements.
· Problems with the diversity thesis.
· Problems with the dependency thesis.
· Problems with ethnocentrism.
· Holmes’s normative view.
· The distinction between emotivism and ethical subjectivism.
· Explain the 2 philosophical movements that led to emotivism.
· Stevenson’s theory of the relation between facts and attitudes as a defense for emotivism.
· Holmes’s 3 criticisms of emotivism.
