Abstract

A re-evaluation of modern naturalism, intuitionism, emotivism, and of the linguistic approaches to the epistemology of ethics, followed by a study of the meaning of ethical sentences through the use of five categories: descriptive, emotive, evaluative, directive, and critical. The contrast developed between emotive and evaluative language, and the discussion of the bearing of critical meaning on the analysis of "ought" sentences are the most interesting.--E: R. G.