ogic and ethics are too often regarded as separate, if not somehow in opposition to each other. But many great logicians, including Aristotle, Ockham, Bolzano, De Morgan, and Russell, were capable of incisive contributions to ethics and...
moreogic and ethics are too often regarded as separate, if not somehow in opposition to each other. But many great logicians, including Aristotle, Ockham, Bolzano, De Morgan, and Russell, were capable of incisive contributions to ethics and of heroic actions grounded in ethical insight. Likewise many exemplary moralists, including Socrates, Plato, Kant, Mill, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, showed by their teachings and actions a deep commitment to objectivity, the ethical value that motivates logic and is served by logic. This article explores the role of logic in ethics