Analytic ethics in the central period |
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Authors: | Mark Bevir Jason Blakely[Author vitae] |
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Affiliation: | Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1950, United States |
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Abstract: | Analytic ethics in the central period – extending from the beginning of the twentieth century to post-World War II linguistic analysis – is too often construed by historians and philosophers alike in monolithic terms as the emotivism of A. J. Ayer. In contrast, we argue that a multiplicity of ethical doctrines were developed by analytic philosophers at this time of which Ayer's emotivism was just one. Moreover, we maintain that this multiplicity of ethical doctrines was itself the result of a multiplicity of conceptions of analysis and that connecting these two sets of beliefs makes for the best understanding of analytic ethics. |
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Keywords: | Analytic philosophy A. J. Ayer Ethics Emotivism G. E. Moore Vienna Circle |
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