Contra la pretensión de hacer ciencia de la Ética

Luis Alejandro Castro Mcausland

doi:10.28970/hh.2020.2.a1

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Against the Pretension of Making Science out of Ethics

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Luis Alejandro Castro Mcausland Universidad de La Sabana ,

In this article, we will first present what is meant by making a science out of ethics. Once this concept has been elucidated, the central question of the text is posed: Is it possible to make a science out of ethics? Later, we present a review of recent academic literature on Wittgenstein and the relationship of Wittgenstein's philosophy to ethics, intending to compare his reflection on development. Through this, we express the impossibility of making a science out of ethics, as ethics is beyond the propositional language needed to make science. Thus, we present the shortcomings of those authors who attempt to give an ethical theory. Then, by avoiding the problems associated with scientistic attempts to co-opt ethics, we explain whether doing ethics is possible after the constraints of propositional language have been removed. Finally, it is concluded that there are ways to do ethics, even if science is not one of them.

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Ethics, Wittgenstein, Science, Language, Relativism, Scientific, Darlei Dall’Agnoll

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Castro Mcausland, L. A. (2021). Against the Pretension of Making Science out of Ethics. Humanitas Hodie, 3(2), H32a1. https://doi.org/10.28970/hh.2020.2.a1

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Castro Mcausland, L. A. (2021). Against the Pretension of Making Science out of Ethics. Humanitas Hodie, 3(2), H32a1. https://doi.org/10.28970/hh.2020.2.a1

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