Wittgenstein On Religious Belief

Author : Norman Malcolm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134725809

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Wittgenstein: A Religious Point Of View? by Norman Malcolm Pdf

Ludwig Wittgenstein once said: 'I am not a religious man, but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.' This study, the last work of the distinguished philosopher Norman Malcolm, is a discussion of what Wittgenstein may have meant by this and its significance for philosophy. The book concludes with a critical discussion of Malcolm's essay by Peter Winch.

Author : Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009276030

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Wittgenstein on Religious Belief by Genia Schönbaumsfeld Pdf

Wittgenstein published next to nothing on the philosophy of religion and yet his conception of religious belief has been both enormously influential and hotly contested. In the contemporary literature, Wittgenstein has variously been labelled a fideist, a non-cognitivist and a relativist of sorts. This Element shows that all of these readings are misguided and seriously at odds, not just with what Wittgenstein says about religious belief, but with his entire later philosophy. This Element also argues that Wittgenstein presents us with an important 'third way' of understanding religious belief – one that does not fall into the trap of either assimilating religious beliefs to ordinary empirical or scientific beliefs or seeking to reduce them to the expression of certain attitudes.

Author : Robert L. Arrington,Mark Addis
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0415335558

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Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion by Robert L. Arrington,Mark Addis Pdf

An exciting introduction to the contribution which Wittgenstein made to the philosophy of religion.

Author : W.Donald Hudson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1975-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349007288

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Wittgenstein and Religious Belief by W.Donald Hudson Pdf

Author : Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191614835

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A Confusion of the Spheres by Genia Schönbaumsfeld Pdf

Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in philosophical literature, but there has been little in the way of serious and comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Schönbaumsfeld closes this gap and offers new readings of Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's conceptions of philosophy and religious belief. Chapter one documents Kierkegaard's influence on Wittgenstein, while chapters two and three provide trenchant criticisms of two prominent attempts to compare the two thinkers, those by D. Z. Phillips and James Conant. In chapter four, Schönbaumsfeld develops Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's concerted criticisms of certain standard conceptions of religious belief, and defends their own positive conception against the common charges of 'irrationalism' and 'fideism'. As well as contributing to contemporary debate about how to read Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's work, A Confusion of the Spheres addresses issues which not only concern scholars of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard, but anyone interested in the philosophy of religion, or the ethical aspects of philosophical practice as such.

Author : Gordon Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198713975

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Wittgenstein and Natural Religion by Gordon Graham Pdf

Gordon Graham presents a bold new account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, which argues for its relevance to the study of religion and aims to revitalize the philosophy of 'true religion'. He uses Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy to argue in favour of the idea that 'true religion' is to be understood as human participation in divine life.

Author : Felicity McCutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351904933

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Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone by Felicity McCutcheon Pdf

Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone provides a critical examination of the Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion who claim that the word 'God' cannot be understood as referring to a metaphysical being who may or may not exist. McCutcheon traces the arguments offered by these philosophers of religion back to Wittgenstein's own criticisms of speculative metaphysics, arguing that in its religious usage the concept of God does not fall under Wittgenstein's anti-metaphysical gaze. In presenting a detailed account of Wittgenstein's own philosophical method, including his criticisms of metaphysics, McCutcheon shows that it is possible to accept Wittgenstein's criticisms of metaphysics whilst retaining the metaphysical content of religious language. This book offers a fresh understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophical method and a new critique of religious discourse for those studying philosophy and religious studies.

Author : Mario von der Ruhr,Timothy Tessin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349238675

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Philosophy and the Grammar of Religious Belief by Mario von der Ruhr,Timothy Tessin Pdf

The papers in this collection are concerned with the epistemology of religious belief. The contributors disagree on such issues as whether philosophers have a role to play in determining the reasonableness or intelligibility of religious beliefs, or whether philosophy properly understood is a descriptive task. But all the papers are informed by the belief that philosophical discussion should proceed by giving attention to the character of the religious beliefs and practices under consideration.

Author : Luigi Perissinotto,Vicente Sanfélix
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110321883

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Doubt, Ethics and Religion by Luigi Perissinotto,Vicente Sanfélix Pdf

This book explores Wittgenstein's conception of ethics, religion and philosophy. It aims at providing us with the tools necessary for assessing to what extent the Austrian philosopher can be considered an anti-Enlightenment thinker. The articles collected in this volume explore the relationship between Wittgenstein's thought and that of several authors who were, in various ways, key to the counter-enlightenement, authors such as Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, James and Pierce. One of the central issues examined here is Wittgenstein's opposition to the Cartesian method of doubt – a cornerstone of the enlightened movement against prejudice and superstition.

Author : William Donald Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041161857

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Ludwig Wittgenstein by William Donald Hudson Pdf

Wittgenstein would, I think, have been surprised, perhaps dismayed, to find himself included in a series entitled Makers of Contemporary Theology. He was not a theologian, but a philosopher. The passages in his published writings which refer explicitly to theology form a very small proportion of the whole. Nevertheless, anyone who wishes to acquire a contemporary understanding of theology ought to have some knowledge of his work.

Author : Karl-Heinz Mayer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783668051317

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Religion in Wittgenstein's "On Certainty" by Karl-Heinz Mayer Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 20th century, grade: 2,0, University of Vienna (Institut für Philosophie), course: Wittgenstein and Epistemology, language: English, abstract: The phenomenon of religious belief poses many interesting and challenging questions: Those who don’t have the privilege of believing in miracles, divine providence, or resurrection often find it difficult to understand the meaning of religious concepts in a society characterized by a primarily scientific paradigm in fields like economy, technics, justice, or politics. A number of questions concerning religious belief seem to have puzzled also Ludwig Wittgenstein and he came up with interesting questions and answers to this effect. His concept of hinge beliefs, if applicable to religious belief, is a surprising and convincing explanation of the phenomenon of religious belief. But can it really be applied to religion and did Wittgenstein do that? This paper will try to find answers to these questions.

Author : Emyr Vaughan Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351768825

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Wittgensteinian Values by Emyr Vaughan Thomas Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. This work examines the self-renouncing dimension which Wittgensteinian philosophy subscribes to ethico-religious ideals. "Wittensteinian values" are explored through a range of literary and cultural illustrations from Wittgenstein's own European milieu. The book also highlights an alternative model of self-renouncing faith, which has methodological implications for how a Wittgensteinian descriptivist approach should be carried out. Wittgensteinian assumptions about the nature of self-renunciation, the religious believer's orientation to the world and the place of the metaphysical in religion are among some of the elements that need to be reappraised.

Author : Earl Stanley B. Fronda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004186118

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Wittgenstein’s (Misunderstood) Religious Thought by Earl Stanley B. Fronda Pdf

This book argues that Wittgenstein's religious thought is misunderstood by its critics, and that their misunderstandings are a result of being oblivious of apophatic theology--the theology that encapsulates Wittgenstein's religious point of view.

Author : Brian R. Clack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230371682

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Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion by Brian R. Clack Pdf

Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion expounds and analyses the argument of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough . It details the reasons for Wittgenstein's rejection of the intellectualist theory of religion, and suggests a new interpretation of his rival view of ritual. Denying that Wittgenstein's account is straightforwardly expressivist, the author builds his own interpretation on Wittgenstein's claim that magic is akin to metaphysics. In the course of the book, the author considers such matters as expressivism, 'perspicuous representation', the nature of human sacrifice, and Wittgenstein's cultural pessimism.

Author : Mario von der Ruhr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351905022

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Religion and Wittgenstein's Legacy by Mario von der Ruhr Pdf

Wittgenstein was one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. In this collection, distinguished Wittgenstein scholars examine his legacy for the philosophy of religion by examining key areas of his work: Wittgenstein's Tractatus; Frazer's 'Golden Bough'; and the implications of his later philosophy for the understanding of religion. Assessments are also provided of the philosophical and theological reception of his work. The collection provides an invaluable resource for graduate and undergraduate teaching of Wittgenstein in relation to religion.