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noun
The study of the nature and meaning of moral judgments, and the foundations and the possibility of ethical reasoning as such.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: ethics, human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *meth2? Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor. English meta- English ethics English metaethics From meta- + ethics. First attested in the 1930s.
