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Ethics and the philosophy of culture : Wittgensteinian approaches / edited by Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist, and Hannes Nykänen.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture (Conference), Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture (Conference) (2009 : Turku, Finland)
- Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture (Conference)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Ethics--Conferences.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Questions of ethics and the study of culture are tightly interwoven. Are we to see ethics as one thread in the fabric created by human culture or does ethics rather transcend culture? The discussions in this volume take place within this spectrum. Eleven Wittgenstein scholars explore how ethics is embedded in everyday activities and speech. The topics dealt with range from the ways we speak about human practices and nature, religious belief, gender, and moral understanding to questions about ...
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS OF WORKS BY WITTGENSTEIN; PART I - LANGUAGE IN CULTURE; "DIRTY" AND "CLEAN", AND THE DIALECTIC BETWEEN FACTS AND PRACTICES; ETHICS AND THE LOGIC OF LIFE*; WITTGENSTEIN, RELIGION, AND THE REJECTION OF METAPHYSICS; THE OMNISCIENT BEING KNOWS; PART II - ETHICS, CULTURE AND THE PERSONAL; WITTGENSTEIN ON ETHICS, NONSENSE, AND METAPHYSICS; ETHICS, WONDER AND THE REAL IN WITTGENSTEIN; ON KNOWING RIGHT FROM WRONG; PART III - ETHICS IN LANGUAGE; GENDER, LANGUAGE AND PHILOSOPHICAL RECONCILIATION; WITTGENSTEIN, FOLLOWER OF FREUD
- LIMITS OF RATIONALITYFORMS OF ATTENTION, ATTENTION TO FORM; CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6633-4
- OCLC:
- 890146919
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