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The central question which I want to take up here is this: Is it possible to identify an internal relation between language and ethics, between the language we speak and the object of ethical inquiry? This is the fundamental issue that I want to address. But my question needs to be formulated even more specifically, and I’d like to put it in the following terms: Could it be that the hope of a rational justificaton of ethics will be fulfilled with the help of a proper philosophical conception of language?
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Apel, KO. (1994). Can The Philosophy of Language Provide The Key To The Foundations of Ethics?. In: Michael, M., O’Leary-Hawthorne, J. (eds) Philosophy in Mind. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1008-2_8
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