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language for making or defending ethical judgments" (Placher, 2002; showarticle?item_id=859). Bearing these realities in mind we turn to examining three of the great minds in philosophy. The first two come
from classic philosophy, those being Plato and Aristotle. The last to be discussed is Ludwig Wittgenstein, who was a philosopher of the twentieth century. The paper compares the perspectives and
theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein with those of Plato and Aristotle. Plato According to one particular author, "Platos ethics, contrary to the impression recent literature on the topic creates,
is basically a system of religious ethics...the goal of Platos philosophy is the achievement of the divine life, his ethics in its most comprehensive sense is the knowledge that this
life is our good, along with the knowledge of how our good can be achieved" (Duerlinger, 2002; 312.html). In his work, Euthyphro, addressed the condition of religious ethics with the
following questions, which were posed by Socrates: "Is an action pious (i.e. right or morally correct) because the gods love it, or do the gods love it because it is
pious? Put differently, is what makes an action right or correct the fact that God (or some deity) says that it is right or correct, or is there something about
that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action correct?" (Anonymous Selections from Christian, Confucian, Islamic texts religiousethics.htm). In the most simplistic understanding, Platos
religious ethics were directly involved with the outcome of a situation. He did not necessarily believe that the ends justified the means, but that the end result of any action
should be considered form a perspective that people had generally agreed upon as being ethical. Aristotle Aristotles ethics have primarily been divided into three key terms: ethika, arete,
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