Wittgenstein's Ethical Thought

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Yaniv Iczkovits

   Pages 1-14

3. The Rungs of the “Ethical” Ladder

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   Pages 15-49

4. Philosophical Imaginations

   • Yaniv Iczkovits

   Pages 50-71

5. On Certainty and Honesty

   • Yaniv Iczkovits

   Pages 72-113

6. World-Picture and World-View

   • Yaniv Iczkovits

   Pages 114-146

7. The Reality of What is Said

   • Yaniv Iczkovits

   Pages 147-167

8. Back Matter

   Pages 168-200

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Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that Wittgenstein had a vision of language and subsequently a vision of ethics, showing how the two are integrated in his philosophical method, and allowing us to reframe traditional problems in moral philosophy considered as external to questions of meaning.

• ethics
• language
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• moral philosophy
• morality
• philosophy

• Columbia University, USA

  Yaniv Iczkovits

• New School for Social Research, USA

  Yaniv Iczkovits

YANIV ICZKOVITS Post-doctoral researcher at Columbia University, USA, and the New School for Social Research. He has been researching and teaching Wittgenstein and early twentieth century moral philosophy for the past ten years. Iczkovits is a published writer whose books are translated to several languages, and a political activist for human and animal rights.

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