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What can the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein’s thought contribute to moral philosophy? Is it not presumptuous to think that someone who hardly wrote about ethics might convey to us something we don’t already know from moral philosophers?
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All too Human, translated by R.J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1986, p. 36, §42.
See Diamond (1975–76), “Eating Meat and Eating People,”
and Diamond (1977–80), “Experimenting on Animals” in The Realistic Spirit, MIT Press, 1991.
Another important source is Alice Crary’s “Humans, Animals, Right and Wrong” in Wittgenstein and the Moral Life, edited by Crary, A., The MIT Press, 2007.
Singer (1975), Animal Liberation, Jonathan Cape, London.
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Iczkovits, Y. (2012). The Reality of What is Said. In: Wittgenstein’s Ethical Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026361_6
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