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Meta-ethics and analysis of language from Wittgenstein to deontologic systems
Meta-ethics and analysis of language from Wittgenstein to deontologic systems

Author(s): Maurilio Lovatti
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Editura Fundaţiei România de Mâine
Keywords: meta-ethics; emotivism; intuitionism; rationality

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, partly historical and partly theoretical, after having shorting outlined the development of meta-ethics in the 1900's starting from Wittgenstein's Tractatus, I argued it is possible to sustain that emotivism and intuitionism are unsatisfactory ethical conceptions, while, on the contrary, reason plays an effective role both in ethical discussions and in choices.

  • Issue Year: 10/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 70-79
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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