Culture and Value

Culture and Value
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1980
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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Wittgenstein's notebooks included reflections on all kinds of topics alongside the more strictly philosophical work - on the nature of art, religion, culture, and the nature of philosophical activity.Culture and Value is a selection from these reflections. The new edition contains supplementary material which enhances the intelligibility of some of the entries in the original edition. It also includes all the variant versions to be found in the original manuscript sources (which are now given in detail). The original English translation has been extensively revised to suit the different editorial principles on which the revised edition has been produced.

What Can Be Shown Cannot Be Said

What Can Be Shown Cannot Be Said
Author: Ines Skelac
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 3643966377

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This book explores interdisciplinary themes intersecting with the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and compares his ideas with influential philosophers, from Spinoza to Kripke. It discovers Wittgenstein’s impact on contemporary topics such as artificial intelligence development. This collection features sixteen original articles, delving into ethics, meaning determinacy, language games, and more. Gain fresh perspectives and broaden your philosophical horizons with this valuable resource for Wittgenstein scholars, researchers and students interested in various aspects of Wittgenstein’s philosophy.

In Search of Meaning

In Search of Meaning
Author: Ulrich Arnswald
Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2009
Genre: Aufsatzsammlung
ISBN: 3866442181

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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.

Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language
Author: Hanne Appelqvist
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351202650

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The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as the debate between the so-called traditional and resolute interpretations, Wittgenstein’s stance on transcendental idealism, and the philosophical import of Wittgenstein’s latest work On Certainty. This collection includes thirteen original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which Wittgenstein appeals to the limit of language at different stages of his philosophical development. The essays connect the idea of a limit of language to the most important themes discussed by Wittgenstein—his conception of logic and grammar, the method of philosophy, the nature of the subject, and the foundations of knowledge—as well as his views on ethics, aesthetics, and religion. The essays also relate Wittgenstein’s thought to his contemporaries, including Carnap, Frege, Heidegger, Levinas, and Moore.

Lecture on Ethics

Lecture on Ethics
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2014-08-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1118842677

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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

What Can Be Shown Cannot Be Said

What Can Be Shown Cannot Be Said
Author: Ines Skelac, Ante Belić
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 210
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 364391637X

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This book explores interdisciplinary themes intersecting with the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and compares his ideas with influential philosophers, from Spinoza to Kripke. It discovers Wittgenstein’s impact on contemporary topics such as artificial intelligence development. This collection features sixteen original articles, delving into ethics, meaning determinacy, language games, and more. Gain fresh perspectives and broaden your philosophical horizons with this valuable resource for Wittgenstein scholars, researchers and students interested in various aspects of Wittgenstein’s philosophy.

Language, Truth and Logic

Language, Truth and Logic
Author: Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2012-04-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0486113094

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"A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, students, and general readers alike. Mr. Ayers sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience — those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 735
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Wittgenstein's Tractatus
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Release: 1993
Genre:
ISBN:

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This dissertation presents an interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logioo-Philosophicus. Part One, i.e. chapters 2-16, deals with the Tractatus' view of drawing a limit to thinking, while Part Two, i.e. chapters 17-20, with its view of philosophy and ethics (value). Chapters 2-5 explain Wittgenstein's view of thinking and language. Chapters 6-10 argue that, for him, the internal rules of language are determined by the forms of symbols, and vice versa. Chapters 11-15 explain his view that logic is the logic of language. A major conclusion of Part One is then this: For him, a limit can be drawn to thinking by establishing a symbolism whose signs show the forms of its symbols. Chapter 17 argues that, for Wittgenstein, philosophy is an activity which demonstrates the senselessness of philosophical propositions by pointing out the referencelessness of some of their constituent symbols. Since pointing out the referencelessness of a symbol requires that the form of the symbol can be recognized merely from its sign, the possibility of performing philosophy depends on the possibility of drawing a limit to thinking. For Wittgenstein, an expression like 'The world (as a whole) exists' is senseless because the constituent symbol 'The world' cannot be given a reference. For in order for 'The world' to signify the world as a whole, its form must characterize the world as a whole and thus nothing specific. So the symbol can signify nothing. Rather, its form, as a characterization of the world as a whole, already shows what it attempts to signify. The demonstration of philosophy then brings out what cannot be said but can only be shown what the forgotten original wonder at the world (as a whole) is about. Chapter 18 explains how Wittgenstein tries to bring out the self as the willing self by demonstrating the senselessness of solipsism. Chapter 19 argues that, for him, the will's seeing the world as a whole is seeing the world with a value; and explains how he tries to bring out value by demonstrating the senselessness of propositions about the consequences of ethical acts. But we argue that his demonstrations in both cases are not successful. For, instead of tying up the voluntary aspect of the self with the relevant philosophical confusions, he merely appeals to the problematic notion of a complex to ensure the voluntary aspect of the self.

The Problems of Philosophy

The Problems of Philosophy
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192854232

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This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.