Wittgensteinian Values: Philosophy, Religious Belief and Descriptivist Methodology

ISBN-13: 9781138716346 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 142 str.

Emyr Vaughan Thomas

Opis

This title was first published in 2001. This work examines the self-renouncing dimension which Wittgensteinian philosophy subscribes to ethico-religious ideals. "Wittensteinian values" are explored through a range of literary and cultural illustrations from Wittgenstein's own European milieu. The book also highlights an alternative model of self-renouncing faith, which has methodological implications for how a Wittgensteinian descriptivist approach should be carried out. Wittgensteinian assumptions about the nature of self-renunciation, the religious believer's orientation to the world and the place of the metaphysical in religion are among some of the elements that need to be reappraised.

Spis treści

1: Self-Renouncing Religious Belief: The Wittgensteinian Position; 2: Self-Renouncing Religious Belief in the Novels of Georges Bernanos; 3: Roots of the Wittgensteinian Position: The Weltbild of Self-Concern; 4: Conclusions and Beyond

O autorze

Emyr Vaughan Thomas