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3954 | Immorality is not in the action, but in the deviation of the will from moral law [Berkeley] |
Full Idea: Sin or moral turpitude doth not consist in the outward physical action or motion, but in the internal deviation of the will from the laws of reason and religion. | |
From: George Berkeley (Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous [1713], III p.227) | |
A reaction: A Kantian view (that the only good thing is a good will). It is a very empiricist (and anti-Greek) view to deny that actions have any intrinsic value. |
2943 | Ethics cannot be put into words [Wittgenstein] |
Full Idea: Ethics cannot be put into words. | |
From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 6.421) | |
A reaction: Nonsense. There is lots of good writing about ethics. This is evasive mysticism. |
2942 | The sense of the world must lie outside the world [Wittgenstein] |
Full Idea: The sense of the world must lie outside the world. | |
From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 6.41) | |
A reaction: Since I don't believe that anything 'lies outside the world' I can't make sense of this. He implies that the Self lies outside of the world (to the point of solipsism), so I suppose that's it. |