Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 45 (1):128-130 (1991)
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"The aim... is to show what implications Wittgenstein's approach has in moral philosophy and in so doing to cast light on that subject-matter itself". While this carefully crafted and well-reasoned book develops ideas in an area that the later Wittgenstein did not discuss in a sustained way, Johnston also sheds light on several of Wittgenstein's remarks including the "Lecture on Ethics," passages from Culture and Value, and "Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough." The author is interested in Wittgenstein's thought in not merely a scholarly way but because he thinks it offers the best account of the matters at hand. He tries to justify this assessment by criticizing a number of contemporary thinkers including Mackie, MacIntyre, Davidson, and Blackburn.

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