Author : Ylva Gustafsson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443866334
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Book Synopsis Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture by : Ylva Gustafsson
Download or read book Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture written by Ylva Gustafsson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of ethics and the study of culture are tightly interwoven. Are we to see ethics as one thread in the fabric created by human culture or does ethics rather transcend culture? The discussions in this volume take place within this spectrum. Eleven Wittgenstein scholars explore how ethics is embedded in everyday activities and speech. The topics dealt with range from the ways we speak about human practices and nature, religious belief, gender, and moral understanding to questions about Wittgenstein’s views on ethics and what it means to understand and attend to a particular individual. Central points of departure are, firstly, that ethics cannot be reduced to any specific cultural form and, secondly, that how we conceive of language is crucially connected with how we perceive the relation between culture and ethics. The points of view put forth frequently pose radical questions to the mainstream of philosophy. The different uses to which Wittgenstein’s thought is put also raise important questions about how one should understand the role of language, ethics and culture in his philosophy.