Was Wittgenstein Wrong on Ethics? - Serious Philosophy.
From the examples that Wittgenstein brings, it would appear that the dimensions homologous to ethics are two: on the one hand the world as an unnecessary and unjustified entity, on the other the specificity of the subject that always constitutes the limits of the world, without ever being inside that unnecessary and unjustified world.
The title of this book is slightly unusual, which gives a clue to the nature of the book itself. It reflects quite literally what the book is about -- there are five essays on Wittgenstein, with special reference to what can be learned from Anscombe about his work, followed by two on ethics.
Wittgenstein claimed that words derive meaning from their use in 'language games', words by themselves have no intrinsic meaning - 'the meaning of a word is its use in the language.'(f7 ibid., remark 43. ) Each word has meaning in as much as it has a use in a particular language game, outside of the language game there is no meaning. It would be a mistake to search for meaning outside language.
Wittgenstein and ethics beyond philosophy: by frankdeluxe: Sun Sep 26 2004 at 0:55:54: I can only describe my feeling by the metaphor, that,if a man could write a book on Ethics which really was a book on Ethics, this book would, with an explosion, destroy all the other books in the world. -Wittgenstein, “A Lecture on Ethics” Introduction. Wittgenstein’s work and thought on ethics.
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This book shows that Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophical methods can be fruitfully applied to several problems in contemporary moral philosophy. The author considers Wittgenstein’s ethical views and addresses such topics as meta-ethics, objectivity in ethics and moral perception. Readers will gain an insight into how Wittgenstein thought about philosophical problems and a new way of.