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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics

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.

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]
	Full Idea: Nomos is king.
	From: Pindar (poems [c.478 BCE], S 169), quoted by Thomas Nagel - The Philosophical Culture
	A reaction: This seems to be the earliest recorded shot in the nomos-physis wars (the debate among sophists about moral relativism). It sounds as if it carries the full relativist burden - that all that matters is what has been locally decreed.

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value

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.