Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) (Dec 2016)

Moritz Schlick – ethics from a meta-theoretical perspective

  • Mihina František

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/ebce-2016-0013
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 3-4
pp. 109 – 118

Abstract

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Moritz Schlick was the leader of an influential group of scientists, logicians and philosophers. The content of his book “Problems of Ethics” is the application of the method of logical analysis of language to some of traditional ethical problems. Schlick offers many topics in his book Problems of Ethics – what are the motives of human conduct, what is egoism, what is the meaning of “moral”, etc. In this article, focus will be on the explanation of only one of many areas of Schlick’s ethics – the meta-theoretical perspective describing the main aims of his ethical magnum opus – Problems of Ethics.

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