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Karl Popper's contribution to postmodernist ethics

Joseph Osei

pp. 157-188

Abstract

Preoccupied mostly with epistemological and metaphysical issues, and their implications for scientific and socio-political theories, Popper did not set out to construct a normative ethical theory defining right and wrong, as one finds in the works of modern or postmodern2 moral philosophers such as Kant, J.S. Mill, or W. D. Ross. The closest he comes to formulating an ethical theory is speaking in favor of Negative Utilitarianism as opposed to Positive Utilitarianism.3

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Imafidon Elvis (2015) The ethics of subjectivity: perspectives since the dawn of modernity. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 157-188

DOI: 10.1057/9781137472427_10

Full citation:

Osei Joseph (2015) „Karl Popper's contribution to postmodernist ethics“, In: E. Imafidon (ed.), The ethics of subjectivity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 157–188.