English Explanatory Dictionary

metaethics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The study of the nature and meaning of moral judgments, and the foundations and the possibility of ethical reasoning as such.

Word forms

metaethics meta-ethics metaëthics metethics

Etymology

From meta- + ethics. First attested in the 1930s.

Derived words

metaethical metaethic
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