Ethics without Ontology

✍ Scribed by Hilary Putnam

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 171
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Can ethical judgments properly be considered objective? Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology’s influence on analytic philosophy—in particular, the contortions it imposes upon debates about the objective of ethical judgments—Putnam proposes abandoning the very idea of ontology.

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