Constructivism Quote by Allen W. Wood

As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the…

— Allen W. Wood

In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did…

— Allen W. Wood

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,…

— Allen W. Wood

When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual…

— Alison Assiter

“philosopher has given a rational, objectively demonstrable, scientific answer to the question of why man needs a code of values. So long as that…

— Ayn Rand

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

— John Ziman

“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.”

— Martin Cohen

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

— Albert Camus

“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids…

— Richard Marshall

“Subjectivism maintains that there are no objective moral truths.”

— David Edmonds