Editing Subjectivism (section)

== Ethical subjectivism ==
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Ethical subjectivism is the [[meta-ethics|meta-ethical]] belief that ethical sentences reduce to factual statements about the attitudes and/or conventions of individual people, or that any ethical sentence implies an attitude held by someone. As such, it is a form of
[[moral relativism]] in which the truth of moral claims is relative to the attitudes of individuals<ref>"moral subjectivism is that species of moral relativism that relativizes moral value to the individual subject".[http://www.iep.utm.edu/r/relativi.htm Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]</ref> (as opposed to, for instance, communities). Consider the case this way&nbsp;— to a person imagining what it's like to be a cat, catching and eating mice is perfectly natural and morally sound. To a person imagining they are a mouse, being hunted by cats is morally abhorrent. Though this is a loose metaphor, it serves to illustrate the view that each individual subject has their own understanding of right and wrong.

An ethical subjectivist might propose, for example, that what it means for something to be morally right is just for it to be approved of. (This can lead to the belief that different things are right according to each idiosyncratic moral outlook.) One implication of these beliefs is that, unlike the [[Moral skepticism|moral skeptic]] or the [[non-cognitivism|non-cognitivist]], the subjectivist thinks that ethical sentences, while subjective, are nonetheless the kind of thing that can be true or false depending on situation.