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Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the 20th Century, 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 judgements - 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 is thus deeply misguided.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Ethics without Ontology
• Author: Hilary Putnam
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9780674018518
• ISBN: 0674018516
• ID: 02122599
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 198 g
• Dimensions: 202 × 129 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 2005

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