Wittgenstein Religion And Ethics

Author : Mikel Burley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350050235

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Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics by Mikel Burley Pdf

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an outstanding 20th-century philosopher whose influence has reverberated throughout not only philosophy but also numerous other areas of inquiry, including theology and the study of religions. Exemplifying how Wittgenstein's thought can be engaged with both sympathetically and critically, Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics pushes forward our thinking about religion and ethics and their place in the modern world. Bringing Wittgenstein's ideas into productive dialogue with several other important thinkers, including Elizabeth Anscombe, St Thomas Aquinas, Georg Cantor, Søren Kierkegaard and George Orwell, this collection fosters a highly informative picture of how different strands of contemporary and historical thought intersect and bear upon one another. Chapters are written by leading scholars in the field and tackle current debates concerning religious and ethical matters, with particular attention to the nature of religious language. This is a substantial contribution to religion and ethics, demonstrating the significance of Wittgenstein's ideas for these and related subjects.

Author : Kali Charan Pandey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215283057

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Ludwig Wittgenstein by Kali Charan Pandey Pdf

This book is a critical exposition of multiple facets of Ludwig Wittgenstein's thoughts on ethics and religion. The book first brings out foundations of Wittgenstein's views. Then, it deals with various issues of current debates in the philosophy of Wittgenstein, such as: the notion of transcendental ethics . the dichotomy between fact and value . the distinction between religious and superstitious beliefs . the notion of happiness and human being . discussions on Fideism . whether Wittgenstein's methodology was Christian or Jewish . Wittgenstein's religious thoughts in the context of logical positivism and Habermas. The book is useful not only for students of philosophy and theology but also for a lay reader who is interested in an in-depth analysis of the realm of meta-ethics and religious philosophy of language.

Author : Ulrich Arnswald
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aufsatzsammlung
ISBN : 9783866442184

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In Search of Meaning by Ulrich Arnswald Pdf

The essays collected in this volume explore some of the themes that have been at the centre of recent debates within Wittgensteinian scholarship. In opposition to what we are tentatively inclined to think, the articles of this volume invite us to understand that our need to grasp the essence of ethical and religious thought and language will not be achieved by metaphysical theories expounded from such a point of view, but by focusing on our everyday forms of expression.

Author : Cyril Barrett
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 063116815X

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Wittgenstein on Ethics and Religious Belief by Cyril Barrett Pdf

This text expounds and relates the ethical and religious views of a philosopher that are usually discussed in terms of language. (Philosophy)

Author : Bob Plant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0415349958

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Wittgenstein and Levinas by Bob Plant Pdf

This book explores the hitherto neglected affinities between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Emmannuel Levinas, two of the most important and challenging thinkers of the 20th century

Author : Aa. Vv.
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788857530208

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The Darkness of This Time by Aa. Vv. Pdf

The present book is a collection of 9 essays, emerging from a long and intense research collaboration among scholars coming from different backgrounds and traditions. As the book’s subtitle suggests, these essays focus on the ethical, religious, and political aspects of Wittgenstein’s thought, which are illustrated and investigated with reference to theircomplex interaction with Wittgenstein’s philosophical method and his conception of philosophy, on the one hand, and with his conception of language and human agency on the other.

Author : Luigi Perissinotto,Vicente Sanfélix
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : 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 : Ylva Gustafsson,Camilla Kronqvist,Hannes Nykänen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443866330

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Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture by Ylva Gustafsson,Camilla Kronqvist,Hannes Nykänen Pdf

Questions of ethics and the study of culture are tightly interwoven. Are we to see ethics as one thread in the fabric created by human culture or does ethics rather transcend culture? The discussions in this volume take place within this spectrum. Eleven Wittgenstein scholars explore how ethics is embedded in everyday activities and speech. The topics dealt with range from the ways we speak about human practices and nature, religious belief, gender, and moral understanding to questions about Wittgenstein’s views on ethics and what it means to understand and attend to a particular individual. Central points of departure are, firstly, that ethics cannot be reduced to any specific cultural form and, secondly, that how we conceive of language is crucially connected with how we perceive the relation between culture and ethics. The points of view put forth frequently pose radical questions to the mainstream of philosophy. The different uses to which Wittgenstein’s thought is put also raise important questions about how one should understand the role of language, ethics and culture in his philosophy.

Author : Ulrich Arnswald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2821874197

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In Search of Meaning by Ulrich Arnswald Pdf

The essays collected in this volume explore some of the themes that have been at the centre of recent debates within Wittgensteinian scholarship. This book is an attempt to express the difficult nature of ethics, mysticism and religion, their problematic status in the modern world, and the possible justifications for ethical and religious commitment. Naturally, it also discusses some of the main ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. His very personal and often aphoristic way of writing cannot simply be restated or interpreted. However, his philosophy is in need of interpretation, and interpretations are -- as we all know -- often rather controversial. The collected contributions aim, therefore, at bringing new insight into the essence of Wittgenstein's ethical and religious beliefs by understanding his concepts of thought and language in a more detailed way. In opposition to what we are tentatively inclined to think, the articles of this volume invite us to understand that our need to grasp the essence of ethical and religious thought and language will not be achieved by metaphysical theories expounded from such a point of view, but by focusing on our everyday forms of expression. The articles have in common an understanding of Wittgenstein as not proposing metaphysical theories, but rather showing us the way to work ourselves out of the confusions we become entangled in when philosophizing. Thus, the authors show from a Wittgensteinian perspective that the standard modern approaches to ethics cannot justify traditional moral beliefs.

Author : J. Mark Lazenby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441142887

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The Early Wittgenstein on Religion by J. Mark Lazenby Pdf

Many have observed how Wittgenstein's later philosophy illuminates the philosophy of religion. Rarely, however, have they paid attention to his early philosophy. Those who have argued that Wittgenstein refuted his early positions in his later work. This book proves otherwise. The proof is found in the answer to an important, but largely ignored, question: what is the relation of Wittgenstein's discussion of logic to his discussion of religion and ethics in the early work? Lazenby's answer is that Wittgenstein, in his discussion of logic, describes the boundaries of factual discourse for the purpose of fixing a common language. And in his discussion of religion and ethics, Wittgenstein suggests that when religious and ethical statements fall outside this common language, we should reconstruct them to make sense within the common language. Such reconstruction ensures that the meaning of religious utterances agrees with how believers actually live and speak. Lazenby's approach is novel because it finds unity in what commentators have considered incommensurable topics in Wittgenstein's early work-logic and religion-while also finding unity between his early and later philosophy. Lazenby ends the book by considering the implications for theology and inter-religious dialogue. If theologians reconstruct the meanings of words that have lost their meaning in the common language of the modern world, these words will regain their force in the lives of believers. And the very possibility of a common language allows logical space for theologians from among the world's religions to find a common language in which to communicate.

Author : Jack Manzi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000996524

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Between Wittgenstein and Weil by Jack Manzi Pdf

This volume explores the relationship between the philosophical thought of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The contributions shed light on how reading Weil can inform our understanding of Wittgenstein, and vice versa. The chapters cover different aspects of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s philosophy, including their religious thought and their views on ethics and metaphilosophy. They address the following questions: How does Wittgenstein’s struggle with religious belief match up with Simone Weil’s own struggle with organised belief? What is the role of the mystical and supernatural in their works? How much impact has various posthumous editorial decisions had on the shaping of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s thought? Is there any significance to similarities in Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s written and philosophical styles? How do Weil and Wittgenstein conceive of the ‘self’ and its role in philosophical thinking? What role does belief play in Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s respective philosophical works? Between Wittgenstein and Weil will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in twentieth-century philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, and the history of moral philosophy.

Author : Kali Charan Pandey
Publisher : Readworthy
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789350181546

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Perspectives on Wittgenstein's Unsayable by Kali Charan Pandey Pdf

Author : Philip R. Shields
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226753026

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Logic and Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein by Philip R. Shields Pdf

Demonstrates that ethical and religious concerns inform even the most technical writings on logic and language. This text also shows that, for Wittgenstein, the need to establish clear limitations is both a logical and an ethical demand, revealing a religious view of the world in his philosophy.

Author : Richard Amesbury,Hartmut von Sass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350087156

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Ethics after Wittgenstein by Richard Amesbury,Hartmut von Sass Pdf

What does it mean for ethics to say, as Wittgenstein did, that philosophy “leaves everything as it is”? Though clearly absorbed with ethical questions throughout his life and work, Wittgenstein's remarks about the subject do not easily lend themselves to summation or theorizing. Although many moral philosophers cite the influence or inspiration of Wittgenstein, there is little agreement about precisely what it means to do ethics in the light of Wittgenstein. Ethics after Wittgenstein brings together an international cohort of leading scholars in the field to address this problem. The chapters advance a conception of philosophical ethics characterized by an attention to detail, meaning and importance which itself makes ethical demands on its practitioners. Working in conversation with literature and film, engaging deeply with anthropology and critical theory, and addressing contemporary problems from racialized sexual violence against women to the Islamic State, these contributors reclaim Wittgenstein's legacy as an indispensable resource for contemporary ethics.