And here are two examples of moral judgements that I'll use.
Genocide is morally wrong or morally abhorrent and polygamy is morally dubious.
So focus on those as examples of moral judgements.
But you can also think about your own examples and ask the same sorts of
questions we're going to ask about these about your examples.
So now what we've been doing is coming up with these examples in order to
better understand the question about the status of morality.
I think the best way into that is to now ask some questions about these two lists.
So many philosophers and
I think many ordinary people have felt that there's an important difference
between the types of judgements that go under the heading empirical judgements,
and the types of judgements that go under the heading moral judgements.
They feel like there's something
importantly different between these two things.
So one thing we could ask, the first question I'll ask is,
are these judgements the sorts of things that can be true or false?
So in the case of empirical judgements, it's quite natural to say yes, of course.
Whereas some philosophers of thought, in the case of moral judgment,
that they're not the sort of thing that can be true or false.
They are mere opinions or mere expressions of our emotions.
Now other philosophers and other people have thought, no that's not right.
There's still a difference but that's not the difference.
So we ask a second question.