Wittgenstein's Moral Thought

Reshef Agam-Segal, Edmund Dain

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781138745063
• eBook ISBN: 9781351720304
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Wittgenstein's work, early and later, contains the seeds of an original and important rethinking of moral or ethical thought that has, so far, yet to be fully appreciated. The ten essays in this collection, all specially commissioned for this volume, 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 take up a variety of different perspectives on this aspect of Wittgenstein's work, and explore the significance of Wittgenstein's moral thought throughout his work, from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and Wittgenstein's startling claim there that there can be no ethical propositions, to the Philosophical Investigations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought
• 2 Wittgenstein, Ethics and Philosophical Clarification
• 3 Moral Thought in Wittgenstein: Clarity and Changes of Attitude
• 4 Logic, Ethics and Existence in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
• 5 Logic, Ethics, Aesthetics: Wittgenstein and the Transcendental
• 6 Sketches of Blurred Landscapes: Wittgenstein and Ethics
• 7 “What Is Ethical Cannot Be Taught”—Moral Theories as Descriptions of Moral Grammar
• 8 Perception, Perspectives and Moral Necessity: Wittgenstein, Winch and the Good Samaritan
• 9 An “Exclusively Self-Regarding” Ethics: Response to Sluga
• 10 From Nonsense to Openness: Wittgenstein on Moral Sense
• Contributors
• Index