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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... expression such as 'That's life', which can express a somewhat stoical ethical view. Wittgenstein also says, though, that the propositions of the Tractatus are meaningless, not profound insights, ethical or otherwise. What are we to ...
... expression such as 'That's life', which can express a somewhat stoical ethical view. Wittgenstein also says, though, that the propositions of the Tractatus are meaningless, not profound insights, ethical or otherwise. What are we to ...
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... expression in different regions oflanguage. * Some of them can be removed by substituting one form of expression for another; this may be called an 'analysis' of our forms of expression, for the process is sometimes like one oftaking a ...
... expression in different regions oflanguage. * Some of them can be removed by substituting one form of expression for another; this may be called an 'analysis' of our forms of expression, for the process is sometimes like one oftaking a ...
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... expression ofvarious common-sense beliefs also allows their negation, their questioning, their doubting. What is binding is not ordinary beliefs, but the ordinary language in which they are expressed; and it is not binding because the ...
... expression ofvarious common-sense beliefs also allows their negation, their questioning, their doubting. What is binding is not ordinary beliefs, but the ordinary language in which they are expressed; and it is not binding because the ...
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... expression might actually be used in everyday language, comparing our use of words with imaginary language-games, imagining fictitious natural history, and explaining psychologically the temptation to use a certain expression ...
... expression might actually be used in everyday language, comparing our use of words with imaginary language-games, imagining fictitious natural history, and explaining psychologically the temptation to use a certain expression ...
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... expressions not as revelations to be dogmatized (since we are not to advance any theses) but pointers indicating the way to look. We should not expect them to be equally useful in all circumstances, or even to apply in all cases. Indeed ...
... expressions not as revelations to be dogmatized (since we are not to advance any theses) but pointers indicating the way to look. We should not expect them to be equally useful in all circumstances, or even to apply in all cases. Indeed ...
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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 |