The claim of reason

Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy

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Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy

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English
Pages
511

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The claim of reason: Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy
1999, Oxford University Press
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The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (Galaxy Books)
July 29, 1982, Oxford University Press, USA
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The claim of reason: Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy
1979, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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Cover of: The Claim of reason
The Claim of reason: Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality and tragedy
1979, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press

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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [497]-501.
Includes indexes.

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Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
121
Library of Congress
BD161 .C355

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 511 p. ;
Number of pages
511

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4736839M
ISBN 10
0195025717
LCCN
78026970
Library Thing
9628
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2537843

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"If not at the beginning of Wittgenstein's later philosophy, since what starts philosophy is no more to be known at the outset than how to make an end of it; and if not at the opening of Philosophical Investigations, since its opening is not to be confused with the starting of the philosophy it expresses, and since the terms in which that opening might be understood can hardly be given along with the opening itself; and if we acknowledge from commencement, anyway leave open at the opening, that the way this work is written is internal to what it teaches, which means that we cannot understand the manner (call it the method) before we understand its work; and if we do not look to our history, since placing this book historically can hardly happen earlier than placing it philosophically; nor look to Wittgenstein's past, since then we are likely to suppose that the Investigations is written in criticism of the Tractatus, which is not so much wrong as empty, both because to know what constitutes its criticism would be"

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