Philosophy / Unit 7 Philosophy 0269 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Simple Subjectivism
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The idea
Simple subjectivism: moral statements report the speaker's feelings—"stealing is wrong" means "I disapprove of stealing," and nothing more.
In practice
The view explains moral passion neatly—the reports are first-person all the way down—and it makes every sincere moral report automatically true.
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