Discussion
'Ethical sentences are about the attitudes of the people'-is the stand point of which one of the following ethical theories.
Answer: A
The standpoint is Moral Subjectivism.
Subjectivism holds that a moral sentence reports an attitude: 'stealing is wrong' means that the speaker, or people generally, disapprove of stealing. The sentence is about attitudes and is true or false according to whether those attitudes exist.
Emotivism, the nearest rival, denies this: for Ayer and Stevenson moral sentences express attitudes, like a cry of disapproval, and state nothing true or false. Moral realism says moral sentences describe objective moral facts independent of attitudes, and Hare's universal prescriptivism treats them as universalizable prescriptions, a kind of command.
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