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What is metaethics?

What is metaethics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (ethics) The descriptive study of philosophical ethical systems, especially with regard to their key concepts, techniques of reasoning and analysis, and linguistic conventions.
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Mohist utilitarian metaethics pointed to natural realism.
To a somewhat lesser extent he examines issue of metaethics, including intuitionism, emotivism, and prescriptivism.
This fine book seeks to draw on eudaimonism to address questions about the nature of reasons and values and thus begins a welcome foray into metaethics.
The choice of metaethics, however, is noncognitive.
Value-pluralism is a theory in metaethics, rather than a theory of normative ethics, or a set of values in itself.
Nonetheless, although deontological theories can be agnostic regarding metaethics, some metaethical accounts seem less hospitable than others to deontology.

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