Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry write by Jeremy Wisnewski. This book was released on 2007-07-15. Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that Wittgenstein, though himself often silent on particular ethical matters, gives us immense resources for understanding the aims appropriate to any philosophical ethics. This work re-examines some of the landmarks in the history of moral philosophy in order to cast contemporary ethical philosophy in a fresh light.
Lecture on Ethics
Lecture on Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lecture on Ethics write by Ludwig Wittgenstein. This book was released on 2014-08-25. Lecture on Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn
Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn write by John G. Gunnell. This book was released on 2014-11-04. Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A distinctive feature of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work after 1930 was his turn to a conception of philosophy as a form of social inquiry, John G. Gunnell argues, and Thomas Kuhn's approach to the philosophy of science exemplified this conception. In this book, Gunnell shows how these philosophers address foundational issues in the social and human sciences, particularly the vision of social inquiry as an interpretive endeavor and the distinctive cognitive and practical relationship between social inquiry and its subject matter. Gunnell speaks directly to philosophers and practitioners of the social and human sciences. He tackles the demarcation between natural and social science; the nature of social phenomena; the concept and method of interpretation; the relationship between language and thought; the problem of knowledge of other minds; and the character of descriptive and normative judgments about practices that are the object of inquiry. Though Wittgenstein and Kuhn are often criticized as initiating a modern descent into relativism, this book shows that the true effect of their work was to undermine the basic assumptions of contemporary social and human science practice. It also problematized the authority of philosophy and other forms of social inquiry to specify the criteria for judging such matters as truth and justice. When Wittgenstein stated that "philosophy leaves everything as it is," he did not mean that philosophy would be left as it was or that philosophy would have no impact on what it studied, but rather that the activity of inquiry did not, simply by virtue of its performance, transform the object of inquiry.
Doubt, Ethics and Religion
Doubt, Ethics and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doubt, Ethics and Religion write by Luigi Perissinotto. This book was released on 2013-05-02. Doubt, Ethics and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
In Search of Meaning
In Search of Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of Meaning write by Ulrich Arnswald. This book was released on 2009. In Search of Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
