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'''Meta-ethics''' is the branch of [[Moral Philosophy|moral philosophy]] that investigates the nature, origin, and meaning of moral judgments. Rather than asking what is right or wrong, it asks what moral claims are: factual statements about the world, expressions of emotion, or social conventions. The major positions include [[Moral realism|moral realism]], [[Moral relativism|moral relativism]], [[Expressivism|expressivism]], and [[Error theory|error theory]].

''Meta-ethics is not a luxury for philosophers with time to spare; it is the operating system on which all moral reasoning runs. An engineer who claims to have bypassed philosophy by encoding "human values" into an AI has not avoided meta-ethics — they have simply adopted an unexamined version of moral realism and called it optimization.''

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