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Beschreibung
This collection examines the relationship between Augustine and Wittgenstein and demonstrates the deep affinity they share, not only for the substantive issues they treat but also for the style of philosophizing they employ. Wittgenstein saw certain salient Augustinian approaches to concepts like language-learning, will, memory, and time as prompts for his own philosophical explorations, and he found great inspiration in Augustine’s highly personalized and interlocutory style of writing philosophy. Each in his own way, in an effort to understand human experience more fully, adopts a mode of philosophizing that involves questioning, recognizing confusions, and confronting doubts. Beyond its bearing on such topics as language, meaning, knowledge, and will, their analysis extends to the nature of religious belief and its fundamental place in human experience. The essays collected here consider a broad range of themes, from issues regarding teaching, linguistic meaning, and self-understanding to miracles, ritual, and religion.
This collection examines the relationship between Augustine and Wittgenstein and demonstrates the deep affinity they share, not only for the substantive issues they treat but also for the style of philosophizing they employ. Wittgenstein saw certain salient Augustinian approaches to concepts like language-learning, will, memory, and time as prompts for his own philosophical explorations, and he found great inspiration in Augustine’s highly personalized and interlocutory style of writing philosophy. Each in his own way, in an effort to understand human experience more fully, adopts a mode of philosophizing that involves questioning, recognizing confusions, and confronting doubts. Beyond its bearing on such topics as language, meaning, knowledge, and will, their analysis extends to the nature of religious belief and its fundamental place in human experience. The essays collected here consider a broad range of themes, from issues regarding teaching, linguistic meaning, and self-understanding to miracles, ritual, and religion.
Über den Autor

Kim Paffenroth is professor of religious studies and the director of the Honors Program at Iona College.

John Doody is professor of philosophy and Robert M. Birmingham chair in humanities
at Villanova University.

Alexander R. Eodice is professor of philosophy and chair of the Philosophy Department at Iona College.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter1. Wittgenstein and Augustine De Magistro
Chapter2. Learning by Ostension in Augustine and Wittgenstein
Chapter3. In the Beginning: Wittgenstein Reads Augustine
Chapter4. The Swine and the Chatterbox
Chapter5. Wittgenstein, Ritual, and "St. Augustine's Attitude to Sex"
Chapter6. Wittgenstein and Augustine on Seeing Miracles
Chapter7. Original Sense: Augustine and Wittgenstein on Religion and Origins
Chapter8. Wittgenstein, Augustine, and the Content of Memory
Chapter9. Time and freedom in the Confessions and the Tractatus
Chapter10. Augustine and Wittgenstein on the Will

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781498585286
ISBN-10: 1498585280
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Paffenroth, Kim
Eodice, Alexander R.
Doody, John
Hersteller: Lexington Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Kim Paffenroth (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.10.2020
Gewicht: 0,361 kg
Artikel-ID: 130488137