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The Limits of Emotivism. Some Remarks on Professor von Wright's Paper “Valuations”
Author(s) -
Artosi Alberto
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9337.00161
Subject(s) - wright , judgement , nothing , value (mathematics) , object (grammar) , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , psychoanalysis , social psychology , law , computer science , political science , art history , art , linguistics , machine learning
According to the old tradition in ethical theory that Professor von Wright attempts to revive in his paper “Valuations,” value judgments are to be viewed as nothing but expressions of approving or disapproving emotional attitudes. The present paper argues against this view on the grounds that (i) to have an emotional attitude towards an object o does not merely mean to express our liking or disliking of it, but to make a genuine (i.e., true or false) judgment about o ; and that (ii) this judgment, and not the emotional attitude o arises in us, is what we are justified to properly call a “value judgement.”