Is Ethics Nonsense?: The Imagination, and the Spirit against the Limit

• Main Author: Chen, Melvin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Wittgenstein; Ethics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81946; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41043
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article examines three exegetical approaches to Wittgenstein: the positivist approach, the ineffability approach, and the resolute approach. After revealing the defects and inconsistencies of the first two exegetical approaches, it adopts the resolute approach and rejects the possibility that a...