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Ethics in the Tractatus and Imaginative Understanding
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Anne-Marie Christensen
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March 16, 2010
Abstract
This article investigates the resolute readings account of Wittgenstein's early remarks on ethics, especially the claim that there are no ethical sentences. According to Cora Diamond a Wittgensteinian ethics therefore relies on a particular type of imaginative understanding consisting in taking nonsense for sense. I argue that that there are some problems connected to Diamonds reading of the remarks on ethics in the Tractatus and that these mainly stem .from her not seeing the importance of a particular concept of showing for Wittgenstein's work.
Published Online: 2010-03-16
Published in Print: 2005-11-01
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