Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry: A Defense of Ethics as Clarification

by J. Jeremy Wisnewski

While commentators have sometimes taken up the question of Wittgenstein's view of ethics, none has offered a sustained treatment of what positive contributions Wittgenstein has yet to offer contemporary ethics. In this important new book, Jeremy Wisnewski argues that Wittgenstein, though himself often silent on particular ethical matters, gives us immense resources for understanding the aims appropriate to any philosophical ethics. Using Wittgenstein...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826487742
• ISBN13: 9780826487742
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"