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Absolute Ethics, Mathematics and the Impossibility of Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

R. F. Holland
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The idea of absolute goodness and the idea of an absolute requitement tend nowadays to be viewed with suspicion in the world of English-speaking philosophy. The tendency is well rooted and has not just arisen by osmosis from the temper of the times. There are various lines of thought, all of them attractive, by which a recent or contemporary academic practitioner of the subject could have been induced into scepticism about an ethics of absolute conceptions.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 11: Human Values , March 1977 , pp. 172 - 188
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1977

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1 For an alternative possibility derived from Wittgenstein see Diamond, Cora: ‘Secondary Sense’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1967–1968.Google Scholar