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Mind and Morals • Mirroring Metaphysics • Chinese Minds • Guns and Thoughts • Impersonal Remarks • Iron Mountain • Socrates’ Prison • The Logic of Nuclear Deterrence • The Point of Philosophy • Women’s Rights • Naked Intimidation • Whose Word is God’s Word?
Mind and Morals
DEAR EDITOR: I read with interest the articles in Philosophy Now on Mind and Morals. I wonder if it is possible for a philosopher like Ludwig Wittgenstein to write philosophy on morals when he was so guilty and conflicted about his cottaging behaviour on the Prater in Vienna? Of course writing about philosophy, which had nothing to do with morality or ethics, would not be a problem. It would appear to me that his behaviour on the Prater and other places was the reason he said that there were things that we have to remain ‘silent about’.
PROF. MICHAEL FITZGERALD,
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN.
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