Naturalism

According to naturalism the source of ethical concepts is rooted in the natural world around us; we can observe these concepts in the world around us. We can work out these moral facts by observing the world around us, in other words using empiricism to find these natural facts that pertain to moral judgements. This means that ethical ideas such as good can be explained in other terms rather than belonging to some higher world they are part of ours and everyone can witness them. Naturalism is also verifiable, it says that something is either true or false; thus making it a realist theory. Many philosophers like G. E. Moore dislike naturalism because it argues that ethics is reductive, it can be talked about in terms other than itself, eg.good can be reduced to simpler terms which are based in the natural world. This leads on to the possibility that ethics is not autonomous, that is is part of our world and not some other ethics world like Platos world of the forms for example. We can relate to it without having to use vague terms and ideas to make it useful and connected to this, the world of the senses. There are three terms which