Logic and sin in the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. - SHIELDS, PHILIP R.
KORTE INHOUD
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 ...
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1993Uitgever: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.146 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226753018ISBN-13: 9780226753010Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Orig. cloth, gilt. With dustjacket. xii,146 pp.; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references pp. 133-137 and index. Text in English (previous owner's name at top of title page) Otherwise as new. 560 [Auteur: SHIELDS, PHILIP R.] [Uitgever: Chicago : University of Chicago Press] [Jaar: 1993] [Titel: Logic and sin in the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein.]
