Philosophy in the 1970s was coming out of a period dominated by ordinary language philosophy in which leading philosophers like A.J. Ayer argued that philosophy has nothing to say about what is right or wrong and should leave ethical questions to politicians and preachers.
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“A.J. Ayer, who was a very prominent philosopher at the time, said that's the business of the politician or the preacher.”
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