However, positivism is not essential to emotivism itself, perhaps not even in Ayer's form, and some positivists in the Vienna Circle, which had great influence on Ayer, held non-emotivist views.
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Quasi-realism stands in opposition to other forms of non-cognitivism ( such as emotivism and universal prescriptivism ), as well as to all forms of cognitivism ( including both moral realism and ethical subjectivism ).
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English professor George O'Har argues that Chopra exemplifies the need of human beings for meaning and spirit in their lives, and places what he calls Chopra's " sophistries " alongside the emotivism of Oprah Winfrey.
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Romance raises questions of emotivism ( or in a more pejorative sense, nihilism ) such as whether spiritual attraction, of the world, might not actually rise above or distinguish itself from that of the body or aesthetic sensibility.
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The tradition of dichotomous thinking in Western philosophy inclines most philosophers to dismiss Hume s ethics as a kind of irrational emotivism, despite the fact that, Callicott believes, Hume clearly provides a key role for reason in moral action and judgment.
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There are several schools of thought regarding the status of normative statements and whether they can be Habermas, which asserts that they can, and the tradition of emotivism, which maintains that they are merely expressions of emotions and have no cognitive content.
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Hume's theory of ethics has been influential in modern day meta-ethical theory, helping to inspire emotivism, and ethical expressivism and non-cognitivism, as well as Allan Gibbard's general theory of moral judgment and judgments of rationality.
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Hare was greatly influenced by the emotivism of A . J . Ayer and Charles L . Stevenson, the ordinary language philosophy of J . L . Austin, a certain reading of the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, utilitarianism, and Immanuel Kant.
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He furthermore advanced emotivism as a meta-ethical theory that sharply delineated between cognitive, scientific uses of language ( used to state facts and to give reasons, and subject to the laws of science ) and non-cognitive uses ( used to state feelings and exercise influence ).
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Ethical intuitionism suffered a dramatic fall from favor by the middle of the century, due in part to the influence of logical positivism, in part to the rising popularity of C . L . Stevenson's emotivism would prove especially attractive to Moorean intuitionists seeking to avoid ethical naturalism.
