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Inwardness and Sociability: A Reply to C arter
Author(s) -
Campbell Michael
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/phin.12033
Subject(s) - philosophy , criticism , grammar , epistemology , moral philosophy , theology , linguistics , literature , art
C arter argues that W ittgensteinian moral philosophy – typified by the work of R aimond G aita and C hristopher C ordner – rests on shaky foundations because it vacillates between grounding moral judgements in grammar and in a form of life. In this article, I respond to C arter's criticism. I defend W ittgensteinian moral philosophy by showing that G aita and C ordner specifically repudiate the purported dichotomy between grammar and a form of life. I then go on to explain why W ittgensteinian moral philosophers are right not to try to ground moral judgements in features of a shared form of life.