A Lecture on Ethics

By Ludwig Wittgenstein- Group 3

"Ethics is the overall inquiry into what's good, deals with moral principles and governs a

person's behavior. The Ethics Lecture is a unique piece of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical

work. This is the only work that Wittgenstein has prepared solely for ethics. The point of this

article is that ethical thought-provoking experiences are formally paradoxical. This chapter

shows that Wittgenstein's ethics in his lectures are serious and harsh, but do not contradict

common sense or generally accepted ideas about the nature of ethics.

Defining ethics is insufficient since words are simply vessels for conveying information

and do not fully capture the essence of what could constitute ethics. In the relative sense, you're

only stating a fact that can be defined by meeting a specified requirement and not giving much of

a choice but starting a statement. Whereas in the absolute sense, you had to give that specific

person an option. Another example, we may define a good student at school as such since he is

always on time, never late, and so on. A set of norms are evident and visible in our school rules

determining whether a student is good or not. That is an absolute value judgment in which we

give them time to contemplate and determine if they want to be good students or not.

Facts and propositions will only be subject to relative good. With the exception of

absolute good which an individual would do if he were not in his current situation, is despicable

conduct. Even though Wittgenstein does not explicitly state or define his concept of absolute

value, we can conclude that if a relative value is based on some standard, the absolute value

cannot be rational or irrational, reasonable or unreasonable, because it is not and cannot be

provided based on any standards.

 Value judgments in ethics are largely illogical. As a result, even the greatest ostensibly

"infinite value" is constrained by constraints. Categorical values are designed to inspire us to do

what we should on the basis of an entirely rational way of thinking about the good and not on

any emotional desire. Consider the experience of being completely safe, in which nothing can

harm you physically, intellectually, or emotionally, and you'll understand the expression "100%

safe in everything." Each person's state of mind differs when it comes to psychological

enjoyment. When we say, "I wonder if the world exists," we are expressing a wrong way of

thinking because the universe is self-evident and cannot be argued with. This ties to our prior

example of being safe in that one's level of safety fluctuate and differs from others. This, like the

misuse of the terms "wondering" and "existence," is a misquotation of "safe". We have a

tendency to misunderstand others' words simply because the language we use has different

meanings depending on very minor differences, and we are unable to convey a clear picture of

what is going on inside our heads.

We discover that there are none when we try to get rid of the analogy and merely

describe the facts that support it. When hope and something amazing happens, the word

"miracle" comes to mind. A miracle occurs when something extraordinary occurs, and it is no

longer considered a miracle the next time it occurs simply because we have already experienced

it. If we examine a miracle and it has a scientific explanation, it is no longer a miracle." The truth

is that the scientific way of looking at a fact is not the way to look at it as a miracle," Ludwig

Wittgenstein observed. We could claim that existence is a miracle, but that would be redundant

because various theories explain existence, emphasizing that there is no such thing as an absolute

miracle. There can be no science in ethics unless there is a desire to express something about the

ultimate meaning of life, the absolute good. What it says does not contribute to our
understanding. It is, however, a record of a mental inclination that one cannot help but

appreciate, and which one will never mock again.