Positive Ethics

Problems of Ethics by Mortiz Schlick. Authorized Translation by David Rynin. Prentice-Hall. $2.00

Many critics have responsibly argued that the method of the positivists is quite inadequate to deal with the problems of value and of ethics. The posthumous publication in English of Schlick’s Fragen der Ethik will strengthen their conviction. For here is the first discussion of ethics by a positivist available in the English language. And its thesis turns out to be as fallacious as it is old.