The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling

Author:A. C. Grayling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ancient & Classical, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History, History & Culture, Literature & the Arts, Logic, Movements, Philosophy, Religion
ISBN: 9780241980866
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2019-06-20T03:00:00+00:00

Russell never thought of himself as a moral philosopher, though he was certainly a moralist – not of a puritanical kind; quite the contrary – but in fact he made genuine contributions to moral theory, anticipating emotivism (the idea that ethical judgments are disguised expressions of how the judger feels about the matter in question) and ‘error theory’ (the view, associated mainly with J. L. Mackie, that because ethical judgments are not objective, they are false). In light of the fact that Russell had emphatic views about what is right and wrong – the First World War was wrong, nuclear weapons are bad, smacking children is wrong, hypocrisy is bad, kindness and compassion are right, peace is good – there is no straightforward link between his theory and practice.

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