Lexicon of Arguments

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IV 112
Ethics/value/Tractatus: 6.422 Ethics has nothing to do with punishment and reward in the ordinary sense.
So the question of the consequences of the action must be unimportant - at least the consequences should not be events - because something must still be correct with this question - Solution: reward and punishment must lie in the action itself. >Actions, >Use, >Language game.
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VII 27
Sense/Tractatus/Tetens: controversial thesis: that only descriptive sentences would make sense. - Ethics: Problem: normative sentences are meaningless. >Sense.
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VII 111
Will/good/evil/ethics/Tractatus/Wittgenstein: (absolutely) good or bad will can only change the boundaries of the world - not the facts, not what can be expressed by language - solution: also in every other possible world the absolutely good/evil would be good or evil - therefore we cannot talk sensibly about the ethical.

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