Wittgenstein at His Word
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 Wittgenstei
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
'The darkness of this time'
Therapy?
1 Confusion
Philosophy in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophy in the Philosophical Investigations
The use of philosophy
Confusion
Nonsense
The wonder of the world
'Dreadful, magnificent, horrible, tragic'
2 Nonsense
Sense and meaning
Logical possibility and the solitary individual
Private language
Nonsense early and late
Conclusion
3 Certainty
Foundationalism
Wittgenstein on foundations
Conway's matrix
The arbitrariness of grammar. 4 Ethics
Problems
Against peace and freedom
Wittgenstein's method
Wittgenstein's stomache-aches
Continuity in Wittgenstein's remarks on ethics
The disappearance of ethics
Methodology and value
Wittgenstein on ethics
Conclusion
5 Religion
Sources of the alleged doctrines
Wittgenstein's avowed method and purpose in philosophy
Four varieties of religious belief
Implications for understanding and applying Wittgenstein's work
Getting Wittgenstein's goat
Superstition
Wittgensteinian fideism
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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