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Analysis of moral language in metaethics

langv‘I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.’
Johann Goethe,
Faust

When I’m thinking about the phenomenon of moral language – lines from a poem of the famous Russian poet – Vladimir Mayakovski – come immediately to my mind: “what is good and what is bad”. Remember? This phrase has become a common like Shakespeare’s one: “to be or not to be”. Continue reading