Problems of Ethics

Originally published in 1939. PROBLEMS OF ETHICS by MORITZ SCHLICK. TRANSLATION BY DAVID RYNIN. Foreword: THE appearance, in English translation, of Professor Moritz Schlicks Fragen dcr JLthi is timely and welcome.-Professor Schlick was the leader of the vigorous and influential Vienna Circle, a group of scientists, logicians, and philosophers who attacked in a fresh way the persistent problem as to what the nature and the significant function of philosophical reflection really is. These thinkers, in general, carry on the traditions of empiricism and positivism, which they have reformulated in the light of certain views arising from a logical analysis of language and symbols. Accordingly, the position which these writers represent sometimes goes by the name of logical positivism. The application of the methods and results of this type of analysis to some of the traditional problems of ethics supplies the substance of this book. It will bring home to the mind of the thoughtful reader th