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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... matter, and seeing what is at issue will be easier ifI give an overview of the interpretative battlefield. Interpretations ofWittgenstein's work have always varied, but recent attempts to make sense ofit tend to fall into two groups ...
... matter, and seeing what is at issue will be easier ifI give an overview of the interpretative battlefield. Interpretations ofWittgenstein's work have always varied, but recent attempts to make sense ofit tend to fall into two groups ...
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... matter of most books on Wittgenstein, but not this one. The world does not need another such book, and, as I have said, it is ultimately not possible to say exactly what suspicions guided Wittgenstein's therapeutic remarks. An ...
... matter of most books on Wittgenstein, but not this one. The world does not need another such book, and, as I have said, it is ultimately not possible to say exactly what suspicions guided Wittgenstein's therapeutic remarks. An ...
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... matter to know what to make of \/Vittgenstein as author of the Tractatus (whom, apparently, we are meant to understand) and his propositions (which we are to recognize as nonsensical). I will take a preliminary look at this question ...
... matter to know what to make of \/Vittgenstein as author of the Tractatus (whom, apparently, we are meant to understand) and his propositions (which we are to recognize as nonsensical). I will take a preliminary look at this question ...
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... matters of empirical fact. Anything normative, supernatural or (one might say) metaphysical must, it therefore seems, be nonsense. This has been an influential reading of parts of the Tractatus. It is entirely understandable, as the ...
... matters of empirical fact. Anything normative, supernatural or (one might say) metaphysical must, it therefore seems, be nonsense. This has been an influential reading of parts of the Tractatus. It is entirely understandable, as the ...
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... matters; and what can be done about it. Confusion Ifthe goal ofWittgensteinian philosophy is the removal ofconfusion, it is worth getting clearjust what we are out to remove. Sometimes Wittgenstein seems to regard confusion as almost ...
... matters; and what can be done about it. Confusion Ifthe goal ofWittgensteinian philosophy is the removal ofconfusion, it is worth getting clearjust what we are out to remove. Sometimes Wittgenstein seems to regard confusion as almost ...
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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 |