Analytic or linguistic philosophers just didn’t believe in such a thing as “Ethical knowledge.” The Epistemoligal emptiness of moral language – that’s what you end up with!
The story of post-war ethics is one of accelerated disillusion and uncertainty. There are several reasons for this. One is the change of emphasis in post-war philosophy from the problems of knowledge to the problem of meaning. As we have seen, this brought about the removal of ethics from epistemology.
Analytic or linguistic philosophers just didn’t believe in such a thing as “Ethical knowledge.” The Epistemoligal emptiness of moral language – that’s what you end up with!
Ethical statements like “stealing is wrong” cannot be verified empirically or guaranteed by logic and so become no more than subjective, emotional utterances. And if all moral philosophy has been doing is to produce “pseudo-propositions” which are nonsensical, then all ethical foundations disappear. We are left with unproveable human beliefs without any foundation and offering no guarantees.