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Author | : Genia Sch?nbaumsfeld |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2010-03-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191614831 |
Download A Confusion of the Spheres Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in philosophical literature, but there has been little in the way of serious and comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Sch?nbaumsfeld closes this gap and offers new readings of Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's conceptions of philosophy and religious belief. Chapter one documents Kierkegaard's influence on Wittgenstein, while chapters two and three provide trenchant criticisms of two prominent attempts to compare the two thinkers, those by D. Z. Phillips and James Conant. In chapter four, Sch?nbaumsfeld develops Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's concerted criticisms of certain standard conceptions of religious belief, and defends their own positive conception against the common charges of 'irrationalism' and 'fideism'. As well as contributing to contemporary debate about how to read Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's work, A Confusion of the Spheres addresses issues which not only concern scholars of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard, but anyone interested in the philosophy of religion, or the ethical aspects of philosophical practice as such.
Author | : Robert L. Arrington |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780415335553 |
Download Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An exciting introduction to the contribution which Wittgenstein made to the philosophy of religion.
Author | : Gordon Graham |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-09-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191023299 |
Download Wittgenstein and Natural Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gordon Graham presents a radically innovative study of Wittgenstein's philosophy, in relation to the age-old impulse to connect ordinary human life with the transcendent reality of God. He offers an account of its relevance to the study of religion that is completely different to the standard version of 'Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion' expounded by both its adherents and critics. Graham goes on to revitalize the philosophy of 'true religion', an alternative, though not a rival, to the lively philosophical theology of Plantinga and Swinburne that currently dominates the subject. This alternative style of philosophy of religion has equally deep historical roots in the philosophical works of Spinoza, Hume, Schleiermacher, and Mill. At the same time, it is more easily connected to the psychological, sociological, and anthropological studies of William James, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, and Mary Douglas. Graham uses Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy to argue in favour of the idea that 'true religion' is to be understood as human participation in divine life.
Author | : Luigi Perissinotto |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110321882 |
Download Doubt, Ethics and Religion Book 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.
Author | : Norman Malcolm |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2002-01-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134725809 |
Download Wittgenstein: A Religious Point Of View? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ludwig Wittgenstein once said: 'I am not a religious man, but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.' This study, the last work of the distinguished philosopher Norman Malcolm, is a discussion of what Wittgenstein may have meant by this and its significance for philosophy. The book concludes with a critical discussion of Malcolm's essay by Peter Winch.
Author | : W.Donald Hudson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1975-06-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1349007285 |
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Author | : Tim Labron |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441151192 |
Download Science and Religion in Wittgenstein's Fly-Bottle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are science and religion in accord or are they diametrically opposed to each other? The common perspectives-for or against religion-are based on the same question, “Do religion and science fit together or not?” These arguments are usually stuck within a preconceived notion of realism which assumes that there is a 'true reality' that is independent of us and is that which we discover. However, this context confuses our understanding of both science and religion. The core concern is not the relation between science and religion, it is realism in science and religion. Wittgenstein's philosophy and developments in quantum theory can help us to untie the knots in our preconceived realism and, as Wittgenstein would say, show the fly out of the bottle. This point of view changes the discussion from science and religion competing for the discovery of the 'true reality' external to us (realism), and from claiming that reality is simply whatever we pragmatically think it is (nonrealism), to realizing the nature and interdependence of reality, language, and information in science and religion.
Author | : Brian R. Clack |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1998-10-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 023037168X |
Download Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion expounds and analyses the argument of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough . It details the reasons for Wittgenstein's rejection of the intellectualist theory of religion, and suggests a new interpretation of his rival view of ritual. Denying that Wittgenstein's account is straightforwardly expressivist, the author builds his own interpretation on Wittgenstein's claim that magic is akin to metaphysics. In the course of the book, the author considers such matters as expressivism, 'perspicuous representation', the nature of human sacrifice, and Wittgenstein's cultural pessimism.
Author | : Mikel Burley |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441103252 |
Download Contemplating Religious Forms of Life: Wittgenstein and D.Z. Phillips Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the significant contributions to philosophy of religion made by Ludwig Wittgenstein and D. Z. Phillips.
Author | : Genia Schönbaumsfeld |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2023-02-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1009276034 |
Download Wittgenstein on Religious Belief Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wittgenstein published next to nothing on the philosophy of religion and yet his conception of religious belief has been both enormously influential and hotly contested. In the contemporary literature, Wittgenstein has variously been labelled a fideist, a non-cognitivist and a relativist of sorts. This Element shows that all of these readings are misguided and seriously at odds, not just with what Wittgenstein says about religious belief, but with his entire later philosophy. This Element also argues that Wittgenstein presents us with an important 'third way' of understanding religious belief – one that does not fall into the trap of either assimilating religious beliefs to ordinary empirical or scientific beliefs or seeking to reduce them to the expression of certain attitudes.