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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... culture lives , after all , and we will see evidence later that Wittgenstein thought of philosophy as a means to improve oneself , and perhaps a few likeminded people , not as a large - scale cultural fix . Still , it was Wittgenstein's ...
... culture lives , after all , and we will see evidence later that Wittgenstein thought of philosophy as a means to improve oneself , and perhaps a few likeminded people , not as a large - scale cultural fix . Still , it was Wittgenstein's ...
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... cultural background , or else a desire for mere clarity might seem neurotic or pointless . Since clarity is Wittgenstein's goal in philosophy , we will misunderstand him if we assume that his work must have some bearing on this or that ...
... cultural background , or else a desire for mere clarity might seem neurotic or pointless . Since clarity is Wittgenstein's goal in philosophy , we will misunderstand him if we assume that his work must have some bearing on this or that ...
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... culture , per- verted by language . Our language does not make error inevitable , any more than bad town planning makes it inevitable that we will get lost when we drive around . What we need is to see where and how we got lost , and ...
... culture , per- verted by language . Our language does not make error inevitable , any more than bad town planning makes it inevitable that we will get lost when we drive around . What we need is to see where and how we got lost , and ...
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... cultural ( and that the confusion it seeks to destroy is there- fore of a cultural nature ) , is suggested by the remark to Malcolm already quoted ( to the effect that philosophy should improve our thinking about the important questions ...
... cultural ( and that the confusion it seeks to destroy is there- fore of a cultural nature ) , is suggested by the remark to Malcolm already quoted ( to the effect that philosophy should improve our thinking about the important questions ...
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... culture of progress he perceives around him , but clarity for clarity's sake is not clarity for cultural edification's sake . Wittgenstein was like Kraus in some ways , sharing some of his concerns about hypocrisy , evasion ...
... culture of progress he perceives around him , but clarity for clarity's sake is not clarity for cultural edification's sake . Wittgenstein was like Kraus in some ways , sharing some of his concerns about hypocrisy , evasion ...
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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 |