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Emotivism vs Sentimentalism - What's the difference?

emotivism | sentimentalism |

As nouns the difference between emotivism and sentimentalism

is that emotivism is (ethics) the meta-ethical stance that ethical judgments, such as those containing the words "should" and "ought to", are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another while sentimentalism is a liking for sentimental things.

emotivism

English

(wikipedia emotivism)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (ethics) The meta-ethical stance that ethical judgments, such as those containing the words "should" and "ought to", are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another.
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    • Related terms

    * emotionalism

    See also

    * non-cognitivism

    sentimentalism

    English

    (wikipedia sentimentalism)

    Noun

  • A liking for sentimental things
  • An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality
  • (philosophy) A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.