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Research About Wittgenstein's Early Ethics Thought

Posted on:2006-08-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X J JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360272966028Subject:Ethics
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This article primarily is based on the early works of Wittgenstein which be written from 1913 to 1931, such as Notebooks 1914-1916, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein und der wiener kreis, Culture and Value, A Lecture on Ethics1929, etc. I try to make the venation of early ethical thoughts of Wittgenstein clear by way of tidying the early works on ethics. I lay stress on textual research on the quality and characteristic of his early ethical thoughts, and analyze separately some ethical problems that are hard to be understood, such as relativity of the ethics, expressible quality of the ethics etc. In Wittgenstein early period of his philosophy-career, he believes that ethics should include approximately these following contents: ethics is the final aim of philosophy; pursuing the meaning of life is the object of ethics; ethics has several characters; these concepts, such as will, subject and happiness life, play important roles in ethics; in his view the life which has value is not only the life which is consistent with the world, but also the life which is an aesthetic life. According to my analyzing, I also indicate that the ethical judgment which is absolute proposition in view of Wittgenstein is relative actually, and not only the ethics can be expressed, but also each speech belongs to ethics if they are applied correctly to the appropriate situation. He completes his ethical reform through the ingenious language analysis.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wittgenstein, early ethics thoughts, metaphysical subject, happiness life
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