%0 Journal Article
%T WITTGENSTEIN AND ETHICAL NORMS:THE QUESTION OF INEFFABILITY VISITED AND REVISITED
%A ANNE-MARIE CHRISTENSEN
%J Ethic@ : an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
%D 2004
%I Universitade Federal de Santa Catarina
%X In the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus we find Wittgenstein s first and most substantial published investigation of ethics. I will argue that if the ethical sections of the Tractatus are seen in connection with a particular concept of showing, they then reveal a coherent and radical alternative to traditional conceptions of ethics; an alternative which sheds light on Wittgenstein s claim that ethics cannot be expressed and the necessity of ethics. But I furthermore want to argue that the reasons leading Wittgenstein to a demand for silence in ethics falls away if one looks at the later investigations of necessity which he makes in On Certainty.
%K Ethics
%K Ineffability
%K Necessity
%K Normativity
%K Norms
%K Silence
%K Tractatus
%K On Certainty
%U http://www.cfh.ufsc.br/ethic@/ET32ART3.pdf