MORAL RULES AND MORAL AGENTS
MORAL RULES AND MORAL AGENTS

Summary/Abstract: Ethics is a philosophical discipline through its tradition and history, through its foundations, its object and its approach. One of the ethical functions is the normative one. Moral rules are prescriptive statements that indicate what is to be done or not in order to make the agent conscious in repeated situations, so that they are judged to be good or bad. The moral agent is the genuine subject of the moral manifestation, a subject acting in a specific way and whose consequences are appreciated as good or bad. The critique of the normative function of ethics, the state of moral norms has been triggered since the beginnings of the Analytical Philosophy. Among the authors of this critique is L. Wittgenstein, whose semantic theories of Philosophy of Language have influenced and generated a distinct discourse on moral norms and on the normativity of ethics. In this paper I shall analyze the following issues: 1. What is meant by the concept of "moral norm"?; 2. The relationship between moral norms and moral agents; 3. Wittgenstein II's Perspective on moral norms.

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