Williams’ relativism and the moral point of view: a challenge by Cora Diamond

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2024

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Miguens, Sofia (Autor) FLUP

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Título: Topoi: an International Review of Philosophy

Vol. 43 Nº

Páginas: 537-547

ISSN: 0167-7411

Editora: Springer Nature

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DOI: 10.1007/s11245-023-09989-0

Abstract (EN): There are similarities between Bernard Williams and Cora Diamond as moral philosophers: both their moral philosophies are marked by an engagement with the question of what it is like to be a human being, and both are engaged with experience more than theory. Still, such similarities rest on very different philosophical grounds. In this article, I consider whether a Nietzschean (Williams) and a Wittgensteinian (Diamond) could ever converge on a characterization of the ‘moral point of view’ as this involves views on life, thought, and language. I argue that divergences between Williams and Diamond persist, a very important one concerning relativism: whereas Diamond adumbrates a Wittgensteinian way out of relativism, it remains a last word for Williams.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Notas: Published: 15 February 2024