Ethics and the Professions	Notes	This is not a substitute for coming to class	Richard Lee
Philosophy 3103		Copyright © 2007, Richard Lee	Autumn 2007

Examples of Claims of Metaethics:

• There is no objective right or wrong.
• Moral claims are by nature universal.
• Moral reasons are reasons which appeal to something other than the agent's self-interest.
• Someone is morally responsible for doing something only if they could have avoided doing it.
• Moral judgments are simply expressions of a speaker's approval or disapproval.
• If the moral code of a society says that a certain action is right, then that action is right, at least within that society.

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