Ethics without ontology / Hilary Putnam.
"Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems arise in a historical context. Putnam's central concern is ontology - indeed, the very idea of ontology as the division of philosophy concerned with what (ultimately) exists. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ont...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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| Summary: | "Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems arise in a historical context. Putnam's central concern is ontology - indeed, the very idea of ontology as the division of philosophy concerned with what (ultimately) exists. 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. He argues persuasively that the attempt to provide an ontological explanation of the objectivity of either mathematics or ethics is, in fact, an attempt to provide justifications that are extraneous to mathematics and ethics - and thus is deeply misguided."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 160 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-151) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674013107 9780674013100 |