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The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy: Ethics after Wittgenstein: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

Autor Dr Paul Johnston, Paul Johnston
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 oct 1999
The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy is a highly original and radical critique of contemporary moral theory. Paul Johnston demonstrates that much recent moral philosophy is confused about the fundamental issue of whether there are correct moral judgements. He shows that the standard modern approaches to ethics cannot justify - or even make much sense of - traditional moral beliefs. Applied rigorously, these approaches suggest that we should reject ethics as a set of outdated and misguided claims.
Rather than facing up to this conclusion, most recent moral philosophy consists of attempts to find some ways of preserving moral beliefs. This places a contradiction at the heart of moral philosophy. As a resilt it is often impossible to tell whether a contemporary philosopher ultimately rejects or endorses the idea of objective right and wrong.
On the basis of a Wittgenstein approach Paul Johnston puts forward an alternative account of ethics that avoids this contradiction and recognises that the central issues of ethics cannot be resolved by conceptual analysis. He then uses this account to highlight the contradictions of important contemporary moral theorists such as Bernard Williams, Alasdair MacIntyre, Thomas Nagel and Charles Taylor.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415208482
ISBN-10: 0415208483
Pagini: 196
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1 The contradictions of traditional ethics 2 Believing in right and wrong 3 Reason and moral argument 4 Modesty, doubt and relativism 5 Objectivity and the metaphysics of ethics 6 Ethics and modern philosophy

Descriere

This is a highly original and radical critique of contemporary moral theory. Paul Johnston skillfully demonstrates how much of recent moral philosophy runs aground on the issue of whether we can make correct judgements.