Ethics and Relativism in Wittgenstein

Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society 20:348-350 (2012)
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This essay is about Wittgenstein, first about his views on ethics, second about his conception of language games. Third, it combines the two and shows how problems arise from this. Wittgenstein rejects theories of ethics and emphasises the variety of language games. Such language games are marked by what I call “inner relativity”. Wittgenstein himself was not a relativist, but it seems to me his views easily lead to what I call “outer relativism”. In matters of ethics this is particularly problematic.

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Christian Wenzel
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