Meta-ethics

In philosophy, meta-ethics is that branch of ethics which seeks to understand the nature of ethical sentences, statements, attitudes and evaluations. Meta-ethics comprises one of the two branches of ethics as typically divided by philosophers, the other being normative ethics.

Related Topics:
Philosophy - Ethics - Normative ethics

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While normative ethics addresses such questions as "Which things are good and bad?" and "What should we do?", thus endorsing some ethical evaluations and rejecting others, meta-ethics, on the other hand, seeks to understand the nature of ethical evaluations and how they are made.

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