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Etica Sin Ontologia (Spanish, Paperback)
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Etica Sin Ontologia (Spanish, Paperback)
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The six lectures gathered in this book by one of the most
distinguished contemporary American philosophers discuss from an
innovative perspective whether or not ethical judgments can be
considered objective. In the first four lectures, given at the
University of Perugia in Italy, Putnam considers that ethics are
used to solve practical problems, not to establish universal
principles, and he argues that ethics are characterized by an
objectivity analogous to that of mathematics but that trying to
explain the objectivity of mathematics and ethics in ontological
terms is a big mistake. Ontology, understood as the part of
philosophy that deals with existence, would be the result of a
great misunderstanding that has perpetuated under different forms
from the Greeks to Quine. In the last two lectures, given at the
University of Amsterdam, Putnam puts his reconceptualization of
ethics in a historical context and proposes a narrative of
intellectual and moral progress based on the succession of three
enlightenments: the Platonic, that of the 17th and 18th centuries,
and John Dewey's Pragmatist. Faced with cultural relativism and an
uncertainty that brings an "infinite regression of interpretations"
of current postmodern thought, Putnam defends the possibility of
justifying in a contextualized way the resolution of problems and
conflicts of ethical and political character.
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