Saturday, January 20, 2007

Meta-Ethical Quiz Meme





Intuitionist
You scored 95 Objectivism, 47 Naturalism, and 82 Cognitivism!
Many judges and much of the legal system is Intuitionist (as far as it goes, philosophically) in outlook to some degree.”Ethical intuitionism is usually understood as a meta-ethical theory that embraces the following theses:

Moral realism, the view that there are objective facts about value, Ethical non-naturalism, the view that these evaluative facts cannot be reduced to natural facts, and The thesis that we sometimes have intuitive awareness of value, or intuitive knowledge of evaluative facts, which forms the foundation of our ethical knowledge.”




My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
















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You scored higher than 99% on Objectivism





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You scored higher than 99% on Naturalism





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You scored higher than 99% on Cognitivism
Link: The Meta-ethical Theories Test written by jacostyle on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test


Quite right, although on every single one of these points I have a more complicated notion than seems to be in view in the test. That's probably not surprising since I think 'value' is too vague a term for mapping the lay of the land -- there are just too many values, and they differ, sometimes sharply, in kind. And this is true even with what goes by the term 'moral values'.