Wittgensteins Moral Thought

List of contents

Introduction
Reshef Agam-Segal and Edmund Dain
1 Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought
Edmund Dain
2 Wittgenstein, Ethics and Philosophical Clarification
Oskari Kuusela
3 Moral Thought in Wittgenstein: Clarity and Changes in Attitude
Reshef Agam-Segal
4 Logic, Ethics and Existence in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Eli Friedlander
5 Logic, Ethics, Aesthetics: Wittgenstein and the Transcendental
Kristin Boyce
6 Sketches of Blurred Landscapes: Wittgenstein and Ethics
Duncan Richter
7 ‘What is Ethical Cannot be Taught’ – Moral Theories as Descriptions of Grammar
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
8 Perception, Perspectives, and Moral Necessity: Wittgenstein, Winch, and the Good Samaritan
Martin Gustafsson
9 An "Exclusively Self-Regarding" Ethics: Response to Sluga
Kevin M. Cahill
10 From Nonsense to Openness – Wittgenstein on Moral Sense
Joel Backström

Summary

The essays in this collection are united in the claim that Wittgenstein’s thought has much to contribute to our understanding of this fundamental area of philosophy and of our lives. They explore the significance of Wittgenstein’s moral thought, from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the Philosophical Investigations.

Product details

• Authors: Reshef (Virginia Military Institute Agam-Segal
• Assisted by: Reshef Agam-Segal (Editor), Agam-Segal Reshef (Editor), Edmund Dain (Editor), Dain Edmund (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367372422
• ISBN: 978-0-367-37242-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -