Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers  -  Elliott, Carl (editor)

Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics

KORTE INHOUD

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled in this volume pay particular attention to Wittgenstein’s concern with the thick context of moral problems, his suspicion of theory, and his belief in description as the real aim of philosophy. Their aim is no...
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2001 Uitgever: Duke University Press 197 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0822326469 ISBN-13: 9780822326465