Felicity McCutcheon

Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone

Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone provides a critical examination of the Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion who claim that the word 'God' cannot be understood as referring to a metaphysical being who may or may not exist. McCutcheon traces the arguments offered by these philosophers of religion back to Wittgenstein's own criticisms of speculative metaphysics, arguing that in its religious usage the concept of God does not fall under Wittgenstein's anti-metaphysical gaze. In presenting a detailed account of Wittgenstein's own philosophical method, including his criticisms of metaphysics, McCutcheon shows that it is possible to accept Wittgenstein's criticisms of metaphysics whilst retaining the metaphysical content of religious language. This book offers a fresh understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophical method and a new critique of religious discourse for those studying philosophy and religious studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781032243672
• ISBN-10: 1032243678
• Artikelnr.: 62994840

Autorenporträt

Felicity McCutcheon

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Ambition: The pursuit of perspicuity
The goal of the Tractatus
The transition
The goal of the Philosophical Investigations (the elimination of philosophical puzzles)
Objectivity and the limits of language
The struggle with language
Perspicuity, Justice and Peace: Philosophical explanations and justice
Seeing connectionsnot causes
Parallels between aesthetics, psycho-analysis and philosophy
What perspicuity achieves
Grammar: Wittgenstein on grammar - exegetical
The development of the concept of grammar
The autonomy of language
Language-games, rules and meaning
Training and Augustine's infant
Training and the giving of examples
Forms of life and the possibility of meaning
Language as both arbitrary and necessary
Agreement in conventions and agreement in behaviour
What then is meaning?
Grammar, rules and reality
The positivists on grammar and reality
Carnap on meaning and ontology
Wittgenstein on the connection between language and reality
Grammar as the connection between word and world
Wittgenstein on the accountability of grammar to reality
Wittgenstein and ontology
Religious Language as Grammar: Some preliminary remarks
Self-evidence and logic
The nature of basicality
Basicality and truth
World pictures and pictures of the world
The reality of God
Conflating grammar and beliefs
Expressivism: Section One: The cognitive/non-cognitive distinction
The nature of cognitivity
What motivates non-cognitivism or expressivism?
Speaking for oneself
Section Two: Expressive as primitive
Language and reality: some preliminary remarks
Language as expressive behaviour
Concept-formation, behaviour and beliefs
Language, beliefs and reality - concluding remarks
Section Three: Wittgenstein and expressivism
Grammatical differences and substantive disputes
Conclusion
Some Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index.