<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Moritz Schlick was the leader of an influential group of scientists, logicians and philosophers. The content of his book “Problems of Ethics” is the application of the method of logical analysis of language to some of traditional ethical problems. Schlick offers many topics in his book Problems of Ethics – what are the motives of human conduct, what is egoism, what is the meaning of “moral”, etc. In this article, focus will be on the explanation of only one of many areas of Schlick’s ethics – the meta-theoretical perspective describing the main aims of his ethical magnum opus – Problems of Ethics.</p></abstract>

Moritz Schlick was the leader of an influential group of scientists, logicians and philosophers. The content of his book “Problems of Ethics” is the application of the method of logical analysis of language to some of traditional ethical problems. Schlick offers many topics in his book Problems of Ethics – what are the motives of human conduct, what is egoism, what is the meaning of “moral”, etc. In this article, focus will be on the explanation of only one of many areas of Schlick’s ethics – the meta-theoretical perspective describing the main aims of his ethical magnum opus – Problems of Ethics.

Moritz Schlick – ethics from a meta-theoretical perspective

Ethics & Bioethics

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

{"article-title":"Moritz Schlick \u2013 ethics from a meta-theoretical perspective"}

Moritz Schlick was the leader of an influential group of scientists, logicians and philosophers. The content of his book “Problems of Ethics” is the...

Moritz Schlick – ethics from a meta-theoretical perspective

Published Online: Dec 28, 2016

Page range: 109 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ebce-2016-0013

Keywords
ethics, normative science, philosophy and ethics, egoism, morality, fact and factual

© 2016 František Mihina, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Moritz Schlick – ethics from a meta-theoretical perspective

Published Online: Dec 28, 2016

Page range: 109 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ebce-2016-0013

Keywordsethics, normative science, philosophy and ethics, egoism, morality, fact and factual

© 2016 František Mihina, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
ethics, normative science, philosophy and ethics, egoism, morality, fact and factual