A.J. AYER

“Con esto completamos el destronamiento de la filosofía especulativa. Ahora nos hallamos en condiciones de ver que la función de la filosofía es enteramente crítica. ¿En que consiste exactamente su actividad critica?” (A.J. Ayer)

Biografía intelectual y de las aportaciones al pensamiento filosófico de David Hume que aúna el rigor analítico con la claridad expositiva.

Irreverent and electrifying, when A. J. Ayer's epoch-making work was published in 1936 it shook the foundations of British philosophy, and made its author notorious. He argues that if you cannot prove a statement by scientific methods, or by experience, it is literally meaningless. In this sense, everything else - morals, aesthetics, religion, philosphy itself - becomes nonsensical. For example, to say that murder is wrong is a meaningless statement - you are simply saying that you do not like it. Ayer's shocking argument, known as Logical Positivism, was a direct challenge to orthodox morality. Yet it became a classic text, revitalizing British philosophy and setting it on an entirely new course.