Doubt, Ethics and Religion: Wittgenstein and the Counter-Enlightenment

Published by De Gruyter 2010

Doubt, Ethics and Religion

Wittgenstein and the Counter-Enlightenment

Edited by: Luigi Perissinotto and Vicente Sanfélix

Volume 4 in the series Aporia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110321883

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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.

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Doubt, Ethics and Religion: An Introduction Luigi Perissinotto and Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Is Wittgenstein a Religious Thinker? Jean-Pierre Cometti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
To Get Rid of the Torments of the Mind. Hume and Wittgenstein on Religion Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
The Existence of God (According to Wittgenstein) Joaquín Jareño Alarcón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Subject, World and Value (Some Hypotheses on the Influence of Schopenhauer in the early Wittgenstein) Julián Marrades Millet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
The Ethical Dimension of the Tractatus Chon Tejedor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
The early Wittgenstein, Tolstoy’s Kurze Darlegung des Evangelium and Nietzsche’s Der Antichrist Joan B. Llinares Chover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Wittgenstein’s Religious Character Isabel Cabrera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
“...to begin at the beginning” The Grammar of Doubt in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty Luigi Perissinotto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 178
Keywords: Ethik; Philosophie; Wittgenstein; analytische Philosophie

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Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110321883

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Published: December 15, 2010
ISBN: 9783110321586