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Comment author: blacktrance 12 October 2014 03:45:37AM 7 points [-]

For Super Extra Bonus Questions: (feel free to modify the answer choices)

With which of these metaethical positions do you most identify?

  • Non-cognitivism: Moral statements don't express propositions and can neither be true nor false. "Murder is wrong" means something like "Boo murder!".
  • Error theory: Moral statements have a truth-value, but attempt to describe features of the world that don't exist. "Murder is wrong" and "Murder is right" are both false statements because moral rightness and wrongness aren't features that exist.
  • Subjectivism: Some moral statements are true, but not universally, and the truth of a moral statement is determined by non-universal opinions or prescriptions, and there is no non-attitudinal determinant of rightness and wrongness. "Murder is wrong" means something like "My culture has judged murder to be wrong" or "I've judged murder to be wrong".
  • Substantive realism: Some moral statements are true, and the truth of a moral statement is determined by mind-independent moral properties. "Murder is wrong" means that murder has an objective mind-independent property of wrongness that we discover by empirical investigation, intuition, or some other method.
  • Constructivism: Some moral statements are true, and the truth of a moral statement is determined by whether an agent would accept it if they were undergoing a process of rational deliberation. "Murder is wrong" can mean something like "Societal agreement to the rule 'do not murder' is instrumentally rational".

With which ethical position do you most closely identify?

  • Utilitarianism
  • Egoism
  • Contractualism
  • Contractarianism
  • Other Consequentialism
  • Kantianism
  • Divine Command
  • Other Deontology
  • Natural Law
  • Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
  • Stoic Virtue Ethics
  • Epicurean Virtue Ethics
  • Other Virtue Ethics
  • Intuitionism

With which of these broad political groupings do you most closely identify?

  • Progressivism (Includes American progressives, European social democrats, socialists, communists, left-wing anarchists, the social justice movement, etc. Important values include economic and social equality, liberation of oppressed groups, and democracy.)
  • Liberalism (Includes European liberals, libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, etc. Important values include freedom of association, individual autonomy, and technological progress.)
  • Conservatism (Includes American conservatives, Christian democrats, nationalists, neoreactionaries, etc. Important values include tradition, bonds within communities, and patriotism.)
Comment author: [deleted] 12 October 2014 09:31:33AM 6 points [-]

With which ethical position do you most closely identify?

Could you have less fine-grained answers, so that I don't have to spend a week on the SEP just to know what the answers mean?

Comment author: blacktrance 12 October 2014 06:04:07PM 2 points [-]

If you want less fine-grained answers, there's the consequentialism/deontology/virtue ethics question in the earlier part of the survey.