Ethical Subjectivism By Russ Shafer-Landau: Article Analysis

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“Ethical Subjectivism,” by Russ Shafer-Landau, starts off by defining subjectivism and discussing the difference between objective truth and subjective truth. Shafer-Landau believes there to be two theories of subjectivism and provides a number of arguments for both and then he bats them down. The first time of subjectivism discussed in this article was “Normative Subjectivism.” Shafer-Landau defines the normative theory as, “attempts to specify conditions under which an action is morally right or wrong.” The second theory of subjectivism is meta-ethical subjectivism, which Shafer-Landau defined as, “the particular claim that normative ethical theories, and moral judgments quite generally, cannot be true.” I found this article to be very well