metaeetika
Metaeetika, or metaethics, is the branch of ethics that studies the nature, status, and foundations of moral judgments and moral language rather than prescribing how to act. It asks what moral terms such as good, right, and ought mean; whether moral claims are objective truths or subjective expressions; and how moral knowledge or justification is possible. The field distinguishes questions about meaning and truth conditions from normative ethics (what we ought to do) and applied ethics (moral problems in practice).
Core questions include whether moral properties exist, and if so, whether they are natural properties, non-natural
Major positions have developed along several axes. Cognitivism holds that moral statements can be true or false;
In contemporary discourse, metaethics interfaces with philosophy of language, psychology, and cognitive science, shaping debates on