- 6.421
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It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed.
Ethics is transcendental.
(Ethics and æsthetics are one.)
- 6.422
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The first thought in setting up an ethical law of the
form "thou shalt . . ." is: And what if I do not do it? But it
is clear that ethics has nothing to do with punishment and
reward in the ordinary sense. This question as to the
consequences of an action must therefore be irrelevant. At
least thse consequences will not be events. For there must be
something right in that formulation of the qustion. There
must be some sort of ethical reward and ethical punishment, but
this must lie in the action itself.
(And this is clear also that the reward must be
something acceptable, and the punishment something
unacceptable.)
- 6.423
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Of the will as the subject of the ethical we cannot
speak.
And the will as a phenomenon is only of interest to
psychology.