Logic and the Basis of Ethics
A. N. Prior
Abstract
This book discusses and aims to clarify the issue of describing conduct and character as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, or as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. The book states that one of the main factors that have made this issue obscure is the illusion of some anti-naturalists that purely logical considerations can settle it. It clearly defines the limitations of the discussions: it is not concerned with the ‘other things’ people use to define conduct and character. The book attempts to consider the issue from the purely logician point of view and suggests to the naturalists and anti-naturalists how their positions may ... More
Keywords: conduct, character, anti-naturalists, naturalists, logic, logic of ethics, application
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1963 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198241577 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198241577.001.0001 |
