Contemporary Ethics Part 1: The Birth of Metaethics

Until the 20th century, discussions of ethics had been centered around Aristotle's virtue ethics, the Kantian/Platonic deontology, or the utilitarian model known as consequentialism. But in the early 1900s, the field of metaethics was born, which was a novel manner to identify how we can discuss ethical subjects in general. What was metaethics all about, and what innovations did it bring? Let's find out!

Script by Luca Igansi

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[trhll]

You accidentally spelled ethical as ethnical in 8:34

[arinalikes]

Hey dave! Since you have taken interest in modern analytical philosophy, you should look into philosophy of science (physics/chem/bio)! Would love to hear ur take on it given you have knowledge in these topics! I study phil sci and ur videos on physics and math are big help

[AliceVFame]

Very happy to see lectures/lessons on ethics! Would be very interested in more philosophy in general : )

[SchreiX]

Next week I will be taking ethics in college. This was a welcome surprise.

[Gruso]

I want to see your breakdown on Ayer's Emotivism as I see it quite often nowadays. Also I think itd be cool to get your stances on philosophy in seperate videos or something

[yodogyz]

Maybe for people like myself that have limited knowledge of the vocabulary used here, you could start episodes with a quick list of definitions that people can come back to periodically and refrence.

[harbi]

Hey Dave, what are your thoughts on eye exercises for improving vision?

[Alchumakov]

Unrelated, but there was a series of videos on Chemistry preparation to SAT or something like that. Now can’t find it. Has it been deleted?
Thank you for your work, professor Dave!

[ClientSub]

Hey Dave,

I appreciate your videos, I just finished watching another video of yours and I know you might be currently busy but in the off chance you see this. Since you seem to be well educated, What’s your viewpoint on Hans Purple? Do you know anything about it?

[shreyvarad]

hey dave!! I know a lot of ppl keep asking u questions about the content you make and also some idiots who try to come off smart by claiming ur dumb for showing how wrong some of the pseudoscience that they believe is. So I have one question for you. How's it going? I thought I'd ask since not a lot of people do.

[ime]

Do you belive in freedom of will, and what you think about marxism

[cspahn]

9:22 What do you think of the Trolley problem episode of Mind Field?

[MasterChief]

Not related but I think you need to review some of Austin’s debates after you destroyed him because in one of them he talked about how you tried explaining how the rotation of the stars in the hemispheres debunks flat earth, and he completely misrepresented what you were saying to him. Plus his smug use of logic to make him look like he knows what he is talking about is maddening.

[donutdude]

hey dave, do you have a playlist or something going into detail about origin of life? when i searched for it, i just saw a 5 minute video and then all your james tour content. i was wondering if you had any videos where you went deeper in depth on it besides the videos of you destroying james tour

[FollowAtheismPart-wz]

Hey dave, would you be willing to publically debate somebody critiquing conventional physics if they paid you around $4000 to do it? If not, would you post a video reaction on their arguments against conventional physics for the same amount? If not to that as well, then why did you publicly debate some flat earthers on flat earth then?

[addygotMAD]

hey what about lets go live tomorrow???

[transcendentphilosophy]

Evolution is answer to the meta-ethical question of where morality comes from.

[PhiloSapience]

@ProfessorDaveExplains I have sent you an email, when you get a chance please respond.