meta-ethics
Noun
Meaning
meta-ethics (uncountable)
Alternative spelling of metaethics
Examples
Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics because it examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies the meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of moral facts.
Meta-ethics is also important in G.E. Moore 's Principia Ethica from 1903.
Meta-ethics has always accompanied philosophical ethics.