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Volume 26 - October 1951

Contents

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New Books

Research Article

  • Reflections On The Natural Philosophy Of Goethe

  • Wolfgang Yourgrau
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 February 2009, pp. 69-84

  • Lichtenberg, the German philosopher and physicist, once remarked: “It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone's beard.” Goethe, coeval with Lichtenberg, possessed by the conviction that he too was the bearer of truth, recked not whose beard was singed. Between his scientific attitude and his philosophic insight, however, a contradiction was patent, as revealed in his maxim that truth is a torch and that it is only with blinking eyes that we try to get past it, whilst in actual terror of being burnt.

Discussion

Philosophical Survey

Philosophy In India

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Discussion

  • Objectivity In Morals

  • B. Mayo
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 February 2009, pp. 85-88

  • There is among many moral philosophers today a renewed emphasis on the connection between reason and morality, and an attempt to exhibit moral behaviour as characteristically rational. What is original in Mr. Kneale's extremely interesting paper (April 1950) is the following-up of a suggestion that certain words like “right,” “wrong,” “ought,” are used in the same way both by lawyers and by moralists; this leads to a logical rehabilitation of the somewhat unpopular concept of the moral law, which in turn argues objectivity and rationality in morals, and makes it possible “to distinguish between good and bad moralists in much the same way as we can distinguish between good and bad lawyers.” The legal pattern is essentially the same as the moral pattern.

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