People express opinions about which actions are right or wrong. Some may say that assisted
suicide is right while others say it is wrong. But what are people doing when they make moral
statements? Are they asserting something? Or on the contrary are they only expressing
emotions and wishes? There are also further questions that depend on the answer to that one:
whether there is truth in morality whether it already exists in the world and is only
encountered by us or whether we instead invent it whether there are moral facts and how we
can recognize those facts. This introduction to metaethics explores the nature of morality. It
illuminates morality from the points of view of philosophy of language metaphysics and
epistemology. The book thus provides an overview of the various theories of metaethics. At the
same time it argues for a robust moral realism.
