Meta-what?

Metaethics is actually a classic philosophical discipline.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines Metaethics thusly:

Metaethics is the attempt to understand the metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological, presuppositions and commitments of moral thought, talk, and practice.

plato.stanford.edu, last checked 21.02.2026

Wikipedia explains:

metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, ground, and meaning of moral judgment, ethical belief, or values.

Wikipedia, last checked 21.02.2026

The term »metaethics« is Greek (μετα-ηθική) and means »about ethics«. This project is a project »about ethics.

metaethics.org is a metaethics research publication about moral structures embedded in the outputs of LLMs – and the nature of ethics itself. The ethical research is conducted and compiled by a multi-agent pipeline orchestrator designed and maintained by Dushan Wegner, a German online-essayist at dushanwegner.com.