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The Circle on Ethics

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Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium

Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Collection ((VICC,volume 20))

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Except for aesthetics, ethics was the part of traditional philosophy least discussed in the Circle.

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  1. Moritz Schlick, ‘Vom Sinn des Lebens’, Symposion, (1927) 331–354; also published as no. 6 of the Sonderdrucke des Symposion (Eng. transl. in Philosophical papers II, 1925-1936, Vienna Circle Collection 11, II edited by Henk L Mulder and Barbara F. B. van de Velde-Schlick, Dordrecht and Boston; 1979).

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  2. Moritz Schlick, Fragen der Ethik, Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung IV. edited by Ph. Frank and M. Schlick, Vienna, 1932, Problems of Ethics, New York, transl. by David Rynin, 1932 (further English editions 1961,1962).

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  3. Rudolf Carnap, Der logische Aufbau der Welt. (Berlin-Schlachtensee,: Weltkreis-Verlag, 1928. xi, 290pp; The Logical Structure of the World, Pseudoproblems in Philosophy, trans Rolf A. George, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1967.

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  4. Rudolf Carnap, Scheinprobleme in der Philosophie: Das Fremdpsychische und der Realismusstreit, Berlin-Schlachtensee: Weltkreis-Verlag, 1928, 46pp (1967) see previous note.

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  5. Rudolf Carnap,‘Uberwindung der Metaphysik durch logische Analyse der Sprache’, Erkenntnis Leipzig, Bd. 2, H. 4 (1932), 219–241.

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  6. Victor Kraft, Die Grundlagen einer wissenschaftlichen Wertlehre, Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung, Vienna XI. ed. P. Frank and M. Schlick, 1937; reprinted Vienna Circle Collection 15.

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  7. Reissued in English as Morality, Decision and Social Organization Toward a Logic of Ethics, Vienna Circle Collection 6, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1974.

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  1. Karl Menger
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  1. University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Brian McGuinness

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Menger, K. (1994). The Circle on Ethics. In: Golland, L., McGuinness, B., Sklar, A. (eds) Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1102-7_15

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