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This is a paper that I recently wrote for my ethics 200 level course @ Cornell College i.e. it is not very advanced. Read it and tell me what you think.

On Emotive breakdown

Ethical problems? Ethical questions? Ethical dilemmas? Pseudo-propositions. The real problem, or rather, the real crisis, is that as the result of the continued evolution of Emotivism there is potentially no longer a meaningful sub-field within philosophy known as ethics. This is the problem that I find to be most perplexing. Can Emotivism be dealt with in respect to another ethical theory, or does it really mean that ethical arguments have no weight or relevance in application to reality. What does it mean in the context of contemporary society, especially in regard to the ethical questions, such as the proper way to proceed with the development of intellectual property law in a digital age? I plan to apply Sartre’s Existential Ethics to the problem of Emotivism, to show that it is merely a predictable instance of Bad faith in the face of despair, and that, ethical questions, such as the proper way to proceed with the development of intellectual property law, can still be asked and answered in a substantial manner.
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SO I think that instead of not updating my web page umm… ever, I will incorporate it into my class schedule and use it as a way to keep a online notes of all of the stuff that I think is uhh note worthy. I think this is a good plan. As you may have been able to tell from the title of this post I am now reading Epicurus, and what better way to thrust us into study of him than with some of his own provocative words…
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