How Long to Read Ethics and the Will

How Long Does it Take to Read Ethics and the Will?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 23 minutes to read Ethics and the Will by Friedrich Waismann

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The contribution made by the Vienna Circle to ethics and the philosophy of action is increasingly being recognized. Here two previously unpublished pieces by Moritz Schlick and his pupil Josef Schächter set the scene, showing how ethics is not dependent on metaphysics but does require a sensitivity to strata of language other than that of science. Schächter (author of Prolegomena to a Critical Grammar, also in the VCC, and now doyen of educational philosophers in Israel) further develops this ethical theme in a too little known study of pessimistic dicta that he published in 1938. He succeeds (without ever assenting to it) in giving sense to the idea that it were better for a man never to have been born. The bulk of the book is devoted to two works by Friedrich Waismann, probably written not long after his emigration to England, also in 1938. There are a paper on ethics and science, which defends the Wittgensteinian view that morality is something one cannot defend, but only profess, and (itself more than half the volume) a treatise on will and motive, where the influence of Wittgenstein is mediated by that of Ryle and where many points in modern theory of action are anticipated with the author's usual sensitivity both to language and to the complexity of the human situation. (Joachim Schulte recently edited these two works in the original German, otherwise they have remained unpublished). This valuable addition to the VCC should illuminate both the history of the Circle and the kind of reflection on language and action which dominates the practical philosophy of our own day.

How long is Ethics and the Will?

Ethics and the Will by Friedrich Waismann is 142 pages long, and a total of 35,784 words.

This makes it 48% the length of the average book. It also has 44% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ethics and the Will Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 15 minutes to read Ethics and the Will aloud.

What Reading Level is Ethics and the Will?

Ethics and the Will is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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