Edexcel A-level Religious Studies: Meta-Ethics

Meta-ethics
Cognitive and non-cognitive uses of language, realism and anti-realism, language as factual or symbolic, the nature of ethical assertions as absolutist or relative, ethical naturalism, the naturalistic fallacy, the is–ought gap, the problem of the open question, ethical non-naturalism, intuitionism, prescriptivism.
Emotivism, the influence of the logical positivism on emotivist theories of ethics, ethical language as functional and persuasive. Developments of the emotivist approach and criticism of it.

This ppt is largely information, with:
-key terms
-Criticisms of different ideas
-exam-style question

Further activities can be added to as needed - this is a week’s worth of material and can be broken down into 4-5 lessons.