Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics
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Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics

New Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics

New Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology

About this book

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an outstanding 20th-century philosopher whose influence has reverberated throughout not only philosophy but also numerous other areas of inquiry, including theology and the study of religions. Exemplifying how Wittgenstein's thought can be engaged with both sympathetically and critically, Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics pushes forward our thinking about religion and ethics and their place in the modern world. Bringing Wittgenstein's ideas into productive dialogue with several other important thinkers, including Elizabeth Anscombe, St Thomas Aquinas, Georg Cantor, Søren Kierkegaard and George Orwell, this collection fosters a highly informative picture of how different strands of contemporary and historical thought intersect and bear upon one another. Chapters are written by leading scholars in the field and tackle current debates concerning religious and ethical matters, with particular attention to the nature of religious language. This is a substantial contribution to religion and ethics, demonstrating the significance of Wittgenstein's ideas for these and related subjects.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781350151345
eBook ISBN
9781350050228
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics: Seeing the Connections
  10. 1. The Early Wittgenstein on Ethical Religiousness as a Dispositional
  11. 2. ‘The Problem of Life’: Later Wittgenstein on the Difficulty of Honest Happiness
  12. 3. Wittgenstein and the Study of Religion: Beyond Fideism and Atheism
  13. 4. Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and Chalcedon
  14. 5. On the Very Idea of a Theodicy
  15. 6. Wittgenstein, Analogy and Religion in Mulhall’s The Great Riddle
  16. 7. Riddles, Nonsense and Religious Language
  17. 8. Wittgenstein and the Distinctiveness of Religious Language
  18. 9. Number and Transcendence: Wittgenstein and Cantor
  19. 10. What Have I Done?
  20. 11. Wittgenstein and the Value of Clarity
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index