JE ETIKA NÁSLEDKOM LOGICKEJ CHYBY?

• Authors: Mandzela Miroslav

Title variants

EN

Is ethics a consequence of a logical error?

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the question, if, taking the validity of Hume's thesis for granted, it is legitimate to deny the cognitive claim of ethics. The author draws on Wittgenstein's differentiating between using the ethical terms in their absolute and relative senses. Using these terms in a relative sense is applied to their ethical using. The author intention is to show, that using ethical terms in this way is not contradictory to Hume's thesis. If ethics avoided using its terms in their absolute senses, the validity of Hume's thesis would not imply the rejection of its cognitive claim.

Keywords

EN

ABSOLUTE & RELATIVE SENSES OF ETHICAL TERMS; ETHICS; HUME’S THESIS; METAETHICS; WITTGENSTEIN

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 704-714
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mandzela Miroslav

• M. Mandzela, Filozoficka fakulta UCM v Trnave, Nam. J. Herdu 2, 917 00 Trnava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA05355