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Wittgenstein and the genteel tradition
South African Journal of Philosophy ( IF 0.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 , DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2019.1650219
Reza Hosseini 1
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In his book, Philosophy’s Cool Place, D. Z. Phillips poses a question that I would like to address in this article. He asks: “if a philosopher gives a course on the meaning of life, can he tell his students what that meaning is?” Here I modify the question and ask: if a Wittgensteinian philosopher gives a course on the meaning of life, can she tell her students what that meaning is? The orthodox position among Wittgensteinian philosophers is that it is not a philosopher’s job to engage with such questions, that the focus should be on second-order or “grammatical” questions about life’s meaning. However, I argue that the massive literature on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of religion shows that these so-called grammatical investigations are not entirely grammatical and that more often than not a conception of life’s meaning emerges in these types of investigations. Further, I argue that Wittgenstein’s engagement with what he calls the “problem of life” shows itself in two distinct ways: first, in his private reflections on the nature of religious beliefs; and second, in his steady yet quiet interest in a naturalist account of life’s meaning, culminating in his last text, On Certainty.

中文翻译:

维特根斯坦和绅士传统

DZ Phillips在他的《哲学的凉爽地方》一书中提出了一个我想在本文中解决的问题。他问:“如果哲学家开设一门关于生命意义的课程,他能告诉他的学生生命意义是什么吗?” 在这里,我修改问题并提出以下疑问:维特根斯坦哲学家是否开设了一门关于生命意义的课程,她能告诉她的学生生命意义是什么吗?维特根斯坦哲学家之间的正统立场是,从事这样的问题不是哲学家的工作,重点应该放在关于生命意义的二阶或“语法”问题上。然而,我认为,有关维特根斯坦宗教哲学的大量文献表明,这些所谓的语法研究并不完全是语法上的,而且在这些类型的研究中常常会出现生命意义的概念。此外,我认为维特根斯坦对他所谓的“生活问题”的参与以两种截然不同的方式表明了自己:第一,在他对宗教信仰本质的私下反思中;其次,出于对自然意义上对生命意义的解释的稳定而安静的兴趣,最后他的最后一部著作《确定性》(On当然)。
更新日期:2019-07-03
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