Analytic and Existential Ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9690458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C D Macniven (York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 1970-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300041627 |
| OpenAlex | W2159339234 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
“What has ethical theory to do with the moral life?”. This is a question which continually confronts moral philosophers, especially those who identify themselves with the analytic tradition of contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. Continental European moral philosophers and those Anglo-Americans who identify themselves with them are seldom confronted with this question. Existentialism, for example, has an obvious connection with the moral life which contemporary analytic philosophy seems to lack. For many people outside professional philosophic circles analytic moral philosophy appears completely irrelevant to the moral life. Since the analysts conceive ethics, to quote R. M. Hare, as “the logical study of the language of morals”, they never seem to get past linguistic analysis to the concrete moral problems which are its main incentive in the first place
Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Existentialism · Moral authority · Moral disengagement · Moral philosophy · Moral psychology · Moral reasoning · Normative ethics · Sociology · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |