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[found in 'Philippa Foot's Moral Thought' by Hacker-Wright,John [Bloomsbury 2013,978-1-4411-9184-7]].

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
23688 Noncognitivism tries to avoid both naturalism and mysterious morality
                        Full Idea: Noncognitivism is an attempt to avoid the alleged problems of naturalism without the mysteries of Moore's non-naturalism.
                        From: John Hacker-Wright (Philippa Foot's Moral Thought [2013], 1)
                        A reaction: R.M. Hare is the best example of this approach. Moore's Open Question argument was said to prove the Naturalistic Fallacy, which imagined that morality could be a feature of nature. It led Moore to platonism. I prefer Philippa Foot.