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A Case for Moral History – Universality and Change in Ethics after Wittgenstein
Authors: Hämäläinen Nora Fiona Karolina
Year: 2020
Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku
Name of source: Philosophical Investigations
Page from-to: 363-381
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cze A Case for Moral History – Universality and Change in Ethics after Wittgenstein In this paper, I raise the question of how the tradition of ethics afterWittgenstein tends to neglect the historicity of morality, in a way whichis not representative of the complexity of Wittgenstein’s own thinking. Ianalyse a tendency towards one-sidedness in the preferred diet ofphilosophical examples, where focus lies on recognition of, and ethicalattentiveness to, a fellow person or creature. Although these examplesplay an important role in their own right, the overuse of such examples,along with a certain notion of “philosophical grammar”, detracts from ahistorically sensitive investigation of our ethical forms of life. Wittgenstein; etika; historie; Cora Diamond; Stanley Cavell; Raimond Gaita; Peter Winch
eng A Case for Moral History – Universality and Change in Ethics after Wittgenstein In this paper, I raise the question of how the tradition of ethics afterWittgenstein tends to neglect the historicity of morality, in a way whichis not representative of the complexity of Wittgenstein’s own thinking. Ianalyse a tendency towards one-sidedness in the preferred diet ofphilosophical examples, where focus lies on recognition of, and ethicalattentiveness to, a fellow person or creature. Although these examplesplay an important role in their own right, the overuse of such examples,along with a certain notion of “philosophical grammar”, detracts from ahistorically sensitive investigation of our ethical forms of life. Wittgenstein; ethics; history; Cora Diamond; Stanley Cavell; Raimond Gaita; Peter Winch