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		skrealing on Jan 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The relentless honesty of Ludwig Wittgenstein (201... Strongly disagree. Wittgenstein clears the way for traditional philosophy topics (ethics, aesthetics, etc.) to be taken seriously. 'Engineer types' may react to ethical discussions by pointing out that you can't define right and wrong, and may then wrongly conclude that they don't exist. But Wittgenstein shows that this is an isolated demand for rigor.

bobthechef on Jan 3, 2019 [–]

You can't define right or wrong? Tell that to an Aristotelian. You can most certainly define it and ground a natural law theory in it.

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