Discussion
"Ethical sentences are primarily emotion expressions of one's own attitudes and are intended to influence the actions of the listeners" - can be attributed to which one of the following philosophers ?
Answer: C
The view can be attributed to A.J. Ayer.
In Language, Truth and Logic (1936), Ayer argued that ethical sentences are neither true nor false. They express the speaker's feelings of approval or disapproval and are calculated to arouse similar feelings and so to influence the actions of others. This is the emotive theory of ethics, later developed by C.L. Stevenson.
Bentham and Sidgwick were utilitarians who treated moral judgements as statements about consequences that can be true or false. Kant grounded morality in reason and the categorical imperative, not in emotion.
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