Definition of "metaethics" []

• The study of the meaning and nature of ethical terms, judgments, and arguments. (noun)

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• "You also have Michael Smith doing a brand of conceptual analysis in metaethics (and Peacocke in philosophy of perception)."
• "Partly because political philosophy is my branch, and partly because I don't particularly dig the modern philosophical vernacular (yeah, I don't like reading turgid journal articles or semiotics either, nor "metaethics" either) most of the newer authors whom I read are really just commentators on ancient and medieval texts."
• "In other words, according to my own metaethics, the command of God cannot make an immoral action moral."