Required Reading

John Rawls, "Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics," in 20th Century Ethical Theory, eds. Steven M. Cahn and Joram G. Haber (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995), pp. 212-224.

______, "Justice as Fairness," in 20th Century Ethical Theory, eds. Steven M. Cahn and Joram G. Haber (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995), pp. 332-350.

Suggested Reading

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), ch. 1-3.

Study Questions

1. What is the distinction between descriptive meaning and emotive meaning?

2. Explain the two major objections against intuitionism and how emotivism attempted to address these issues.

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