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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... understanding and applying Wittgenstein's work 159 Getting Wittgenstein's goat 163 Superstition 167 Wittgensteinian fideism 172 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index 176 181 188 194 To my parents This page intentionally left blank ...
... understanding and applying Wittgenstein's work 159 Getting Wittgenstein's goat 163 Superstition 167 Wittgensteinian fideism 172 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index 176 181 188 194 To my parents This page intentionally left blank ...
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... understanding of Wittgenstein expressed herein I am most grateful to my former teachers D.Z. Phil- lips and , especially , Cora Diamond ( for whose seminars some of the work that follows was originally written , and who gave me specific ...
... understanding of Wittgenstein expressed herein I am most grateful to my former teachers D.Z. Phil- lips and , especially , Cora Diamond ( for whose seminars some of the work that follows was originally written , and who gave me specific ...
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... understand its aim . And to understand this it will help to know something about Wittgenstein's life and times . Wittgenstein's personality is part of the subject of Chapter 4 , which deals with his views on ethics and his personal ...
... understand its aim . And to understand this it will help to know something about Wittgenstein's life and times . Wittgenstein's personality is part of the subject of Chapter 4 , which deals with his views on ethics and his personal ...
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... understanding of Wittgen- stein's aim is useful if we are to understand his philosophical work . I am further claiming that this aim is conceptual or intellectual clar- ity and nothing else . Clear vision or understanding is not ...
... understanding of Wittgen- stein's aim is useful if we are to understand his philosophical work . I am further claiming that this aim is conceptual or intellectual clar- ity and nothing else . Clear vision or understanding is not ...
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... understand . As he noted , much of the difficulty lies in understanding not so much what he says but why he says it . A stan- dard kind of answer to this problem is that the goal of Wittgensteinian philosophy is conceptual clarity . It ...
... understand . As he noted , much of the difficulty lies in understanding not so much what he says but why he says it . A stan- dard kind of answer to this problem is that the goal of Wittgensteinian philosophy is conceptual clarity . It ...
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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 |