The Later Wittgenstein And Moral Philosophy

Author : Benjamin De Mesel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319976192
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Later Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy written by Benjamin De Mesel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophical methods can be fruitfully applied to several problems in contemporary moral philosophy. The author considers Wittgenstein’s ethical views and addresses such topics as meta-ethics, objectivity in ethics and moral perception. Readers will gain an insight into how Wittgenstein thought about philosophical problems and a new way of looking at moral questions. The book consists of three parts. In the first part, Wittgenstein’s later philosophical methods are discussed, including his comparison of philosophical methods to therapies. The book then goes on to explore how these methods give insight into Wittgenstein’s ethical views. Readers will see how these are better understood when read in the light of his later philosophical thought. In the third part, Wittgenstein’s later methods are applied to problems in contemporary moral philosophy, including a look at questions for moral advice. The author reviews and criticizes some of the secondary literature on Wittgenstein’s later philosophical methods and indicates how the topic of the book can be developed in future research. There is something of value for readers of all levels in this insightful and well written volume. It will particularly appeal to scholars and students of Wittgenstein, of philosophy, and of ethics.

Author : Reshef Agam-Segal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351720309
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought written by Reshef Agam-Segal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein’s work, early and later, contains the seeds of an original and important rethinking of moral or ethical thought that has, so far, yet to be fully appreciated. The ten essays in this collection, all specially commissioned for this volume, are united in the claim that Wittgenstein’s thought has much to contribute to our understanding of this fundamental area of philosophy and of our lives. They take up a variety of different perspectives on this aspect of Wittgenstein’s work, and explore the significance of Wittgenstein’s moral thought throughout his work, from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and Wittgenstein’s startling claim there that there can be no ethical propositions, to the Philosophical Investigations.

Author : Cora Diamond
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262532867
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Moral Life written by Cora Diamond and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by leading scholars that take as their point of departure Cora Diamond's work on the unity of Wittgenstein's thought and her writings on moral philosophy.

Author : Benjamin De Mesel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351721534
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein written by Benjamin De Mesel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together essays from leading scholars who, rather than taking a strictly exegetical approach, attempt to show how discussions in moral philosophy can benefit from Wittgenstein’s later philosophical work. The essays in this volume make the argument that Wittgenstein’s relevance for moral philosophy depends not only on his views about ethics, but also on the methods he introduces, on his views on the nature of philosophy and philosophical problems, and on the insights into language developed in his philosophy. They also focus on the ‘Wittgensteinian tradition’ in moral philosophy and its relation to more mainstream analytic moral philosophy, addressing how several prominent philosophers use these ideas and methods in their work. Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein seeks to answer the following question: Can we apply Wittgenstein’s ways of dealing with problems in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of mathematics to moral philosophy as well? It will be of interest to Wittgenstein scholars and those working on current debates in moral philosophy, metaethics, and normative ethics.

Author : Paul Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317678737
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) written by Paul Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein’s philosophical achievement lies in the development of a new philosophical method rather than in the elaboration of a particular philosophical system. Dr Paul Johnston applies this innovative method to the central problems of moral philosophy: whether there can be ‘truth’ in ethics, or what the meaning of objectivity might mean in the context of moral deliberation. Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy, first published in 1989, represents the first serious and rigorous attempt to apply Wittgenstein’s method to ethics. The conclusions arrived at differ radically from those dominating contemporary ethical discussion, revealing an immense discrepancy between the ethical concepts employed in everyday moral decision-making and the way in which these are discussed by philosophers. Dr Johnston examines ways of eliminating this discrepancy in order to gain a clearer picture of the proper nature of moral claims, and at the same time provides new insights into Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy.

Author : Philip R. Shields
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226753010
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logic and Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein written by Philip R. Shields and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertrand Russell was fond of recounting the following story about Wittgenstein's student days at Cambridge: "He used to come to my rooms at midnight and, for hours, he would walk backwards and forwards like a caged tiger. ...On one such evening, after an hour or two of dead silence, I said to him, 'Wittgenstein, are you thinking about logic or about your sins?' 'Both, ' he said, and then reverted to silence". This is the first study to argue that Wittgenstein's philosophical writings are religious just as they stand. Although Wittgenstein often framed his writings on logic and philosophy in ethical and religious terms, the writings rarely discuss ethics and religion directly. This has led many scholars to dismiss Wittgenstein's remarks on such matters as isolated and eccentric personal views, while other scholars have attempted to reconstruct a plausible religious position from his cryptic religious comments and a selective use of his philosophy. Philip R. Shields shows that a matrix of ethical and religious concerns informs even the most technical writings on logic and language, and that, for Wittgenstein, the need to establish clear limitations is simultaneously a logical and an ethical demand. Rather than merely saying specific things about theology and religion, major texts from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigations express their fundamentally religious nature by showing that there are powers which bear down upon and sustain us. These powers manifest themselves in the structures that make significant use of language possible. Shields finds a religious view of the world at the very heart of Wittgenstein's philosophy. This perspective illuminates the distinctiveness andpeculiarity of Wittgenstein's philosophy and reveals more continuity between the "early" and the "later" thought than is usually supposed.

Author : Peg O’Connor
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271056584
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life written by Peg O’Connor and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking secure epistemological foundations and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, subjectivity and objectivity, nature and normativity. These are still alive today in the realism-versus-antirealism debates in ethics. Peg O'Connor draws inspiration from the later Wittgenstein's philosophy to sidestep these pitfalls and develop a new approach to the grounding of ethics (i.e., metaethics) that looks to the interconnected nature of social practices, most especially those that Wittgenstein called “language games.” These language games provide structure and stability to our moral lives while they permit the flexibility to accommodate change in moral understandings and attitudes. To this end, O'Connor deploys new metaphors from architecture and knitting to describe her approach as “felted stabilism,” which locates morality in a large set of overlapping and crisscrossing language games such as engaging in moral inquiry, seeking justifications for our beliefs and actions, formulating reasons for actions, making judgments, disagreeing with other people or dissenting from dominant norms, manifesting moral understandings, and taking and assigning responsibility.

Author : Stuart Shanker
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415149150
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ludwig Wittgenstein: The later Wittgenstein : from Philosophical investigations to On certainty written by Stuart Shanker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein scholarship has continued to grow at a pace few could have anticipated - a testament both to the fertility of his thought and to the thriving state of contemporary philosophy. In response to this ever-growing interest in the field, we are delighted to announce the publication of a second series of critical assessments on Wittgenstein, emphasising both the breadth and depth of contemporary Wittgenstein research.As well as papers on the nature and method of Wittgenstein's philosophy, this second collection also relates to a broader range of topics, including psychology, politics, art, music and culture.

Author : Cora Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989848
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics written by Cora Diamond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cora Diamond follows two major philosophers as they think about thinking, and about our ability to respond to thinking that has gone astray. Acting as both witness to and participant in the encounter, she provides fresh perspective on the value of Wittgenstein’s and Anscombe’s work, and demonstrates what genuinely independent thought can achieve.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118887131
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lecture on Ethics written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’s oeuvre. The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts Transcriptions preserve the philosopher’s emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance