The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy is a highly original
and radical critique of contemporary moral theory. Paul Johnston
demonstrates that much recent moral philosophy is confused about
the fundamental issue of whether there are correct moral
judgements. He shows that the standard modern approaches to ethics
cannot justify - or even make much sense of - traditional moral
beliefs. Applied rigorously, these approaches suggest that we
should reject ethics as a set of outdated and misguided claims.
Rather than facing up to this conclusion, most recent moral
philosophy consists of attempts to find some ways of preserving
moral beliefs. This places a contradiction at the heart of moral
philosophy. As a resilt it is often impossible to tell whether a
contemporary philosopher ultimately rejects or endorses the idea of
objective right and wrong. On the basis of a Wittgenstein approach
Paul Johnston puts forward an alternative account of ethics that
avoids this contradiction and recognises that the central issues of
ethics cannot be resolved by conceptual analysis. He then uses this
account to highlight the contradictions of important contemporary
moral theorists such as Bernard Williams, Alasdair MacIntyre,
Thomas Nagel and Charles Taylor.
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