Wittgenstein at His WordA&C Black, 2004 M08 1 - 220 páginas Wittgenstein's work is notoriously difficult to understand and, at least superficially, deals almost exclusively with obscure and technical problems in logic and the philosophy of language. He once asked rhetorically: "What is the use of philosophy ... if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life?". This book explains how Wittgenstein's idea of the value of philosophy shaped his philosophical method and led him to talk and write about the abstruse questions he dealt with in most of his work. This is not just another introductory overview of Wittgenstein's philosophy. It is one of the few that provide such an overview while also referring constantly to ethics and religion. Moreover, its interpretation of Wittgenstein is far from orthodox, as standard treatments of his work disregard or downplay his claims about what he was doing and why. Duncan Richter takes him at his word, showing the connections between Wittgenstein's aims, the various subjects he worked on (psychology, religion, aesthetics, etc.), and the way in which he worked on them. |
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... First World War , during which he faced death on the front line and wrote the Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus . The desperation and racism of the age culminated in the Nazi state and of course the Holocaust , which was especially ...
... First World War , during which he faced death on the front line and wrote the Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus . The desperation and racism of the age culminated in the Nazi state and of course the Holocaust , which was especially ...
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... first chapter of this book I approach this issue negatively , looking at what Wittgenstein opposes , namely confusion . Confusion , as Wittgenstein understands it , is a somewhat subjective mental state or spiritual condition . The ...
... first chapter of this book I approach this issue negatively , looking at what Wittgenstein opposes , namely confusion . Confusion , as Wittgenstein understands it , is a somewhat subjective mental state or spiritual condition . The ...
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... first is that the objectivity of confusion seems to presuppose some particular theory about language , such as the widespread idea that rules of language are created by ' the community of language users ' . If so , then Wittgen- stein ...
... first is that the objectivity of confusion seems to presuppose some particular theory about language , such as the widespread idea that rules of language are created by ' the community of language users ' . If so , then Wittgen- stein ...
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... first part of the chapter I will look at Wittgenstein's conception of what philosophy is , or should be , in his first published work , the Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus.2 In the second part I will look at Wittgenstein's conception ...
... first part of the chapter I will look at Wittgenstein's conception of what philosophy is , or should be , in his first published work , the Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus.2 In the second part I will look at Wittgenstein's conception ...
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... first question also asks for a word to be explained ; but it makes us expect a wrong kind of answer . 13 A philosophical problem , if it is a philosophical problem , is about concepts , not empirical facts . A scientific study of what ...
... first question also asks for a word to be explained ; but it makes us expect a wrong kind of answer . 13 A philosophical problem , if it is a philosophical problem , is about concepts , not empirical facts . A scientific study of what ...
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2 Nonsense | 45 |
3 Certainty | 85 |
4 Ethics | 117 |
5 Religion | 150 |
Conclusion | 181 |
Bibliography | 188 |
Index | 194 |
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Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker Guy Kahane,Edward Kanterian,Oskari Kuusela Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |