作为当代西方活跃的情感主义德性伦理学家,斯洛特巧妙地运用逻辑实证主义的逻辑(语义)分析和经验实证的双重原则,将人的"移情"体验作为道德命题的经验参照,使道德命题获得了客观指称意义和真值条件,由此诠释一种情感主义视域下的道德知识(元伦理)学——移情-关怀伦理学,试图实现对逻辑实证主义-(情感表达主义)元伦理的超越。
As an important virtue ethicist,Michael Slote cleverly makes use of the logical positivism principles which are logical( semantic) analysis and empirical validation. He regards our " empathy" experiences as a kind of empirical validation to a moral proposition,so as to make a moral proposition get a kind of objective meaning and truth conditions. According to this idea,he constitutes a moral epistemology from the perspective of sentimentalism,and through this methodology,Slote largely expands and innovates ethical method from the view of moral semantics,the logical positivism and meta-ethics( emotionalism ethics) in their treatment to ethical issues.