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The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy: Ethics after Wittgenstein (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory, 1) by Dr Paul Johnston, Paul Johnston is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy is an original and radical critique of contemporary moral theory. Paul Johnston demonstrates that much recent moral philosophy is confused about the fundamental issue of whether there are correct moral judgements. He shows that the standard modern approaches to ethics cannot justify—or even make much sense of—traditional moral beliefs. Applied rigorously, these approaches suggest that we should reject ethics as a set of outdated and misguided claims. Rather than facing up to this conclusion, most recent moral philosophy consists of attempts to find some way of preserving moral beliefs. This places a contradiction at the heart of moral philosophy. As a result it is often impossible to tell whether a contemporary philosopher ultimately rejects or endorses the idea of objective right and wrong. Paul Johnston puts forward an alternative account of ethics that avoids this contradiction and recognises that the central issues of ethics cannot be resolved by conceptual analysis.

Who reads The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy: Ethics after Wittgenstein (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory, 1)?

Author

Dr Paul Johnston, Paul Johnston

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134619092

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, European & American Philosophy