• Reflections on Wittgensteinian Ethics

  Moral judgements cannot represent ethical reality, but it is mirrored in them. What finds its reflection in a moral judgement, a moral judgement cannot represent. A moral judgement shows ethical reality. ‘Er weist sie auf.’ It displays it. If two judgements contradict one another, then their structure shows it; the same is true if one of them follows from the other. Etc. What can be shown, cannot be said; a moral judgement is something that is said. Ethics makes itself manifest. ‘You ought to be good’ says nothing, but shows everything. […]

  drtobybetenson

  17th Oct 2024

  Reflections & Maxims

  Ethics, Metaethics, Philosophy, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein

A Student of Socrates

Tag: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus