It is known as Ethical Emotivism To that goal ethical stream (part of ethics that deals with the analysis of moral language) which holds that value judgments come from individual emotions and then the purpose will be to persuade others to feel how we feel, and even try to get those that people who think totally differently value situations in the same way as we do.
Emotivism does not make use of rational means to demonstrate the validity of its proposal, even more, it absolutely dispenses with it, using only emotions and their spontaneity as means to be able to know the moral truth.
Its main objectives are, on the one hand, to be the means to influence people's behavior, through verbal actions, emotions, pleas, feelings, among other alternatives, and on the other hand, moral language is used to express one's attitude towards situations or things and therefore must be distinguished from simple subjectivism.
For example, at the instigation of this philosophical system, statements such as envy is very bad will not tell us anything about the nature of the act of envying itself, but actually expresses the feeling that it, that is, envy, provokes.
Among the most faithful exponents of the Emotivist current are philosophers David Hume and Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein.
HumeFor his part, he considered that it was absolutely impossible to base moral options on reason; neither in the facts nor in the relations of ideas is there anything that can be considered good or bad, because the moral meaning that they will have will be given in the context of our previous purposes and tastes. Moral judgment, according to Hume, will be based on the feeling of approval or disapproval that we experience under different circumstances.
In the meantime, WittgensteinHe considered that in the world everything is as it is, there is no value and therefore trying to define a value would be going against the limits of language itself. What is linked to ethics will be as soon as it can be shown.
