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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451438403321

Autore

Cavell Stanley <1926->

Titolo

The claim of reason [[electronic resource] ] : Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy / / Stanley Cavell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-502571-7

1-280-83320-3

0-19-802026-0

0-19-534404-9

Edizione

[New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (538 p.)

Disciplina

121

192

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Skepticism

Ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979. With new pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-501) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface for the new paperback edition; Foreword; PART ONE: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge; PART TWO: Skepticism and the Existence of the World; PART THREE: Knowledge and the Concept of Morality; PART FOUR: Skepticism and the Problem of Others; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Passages Cited from Philosophical Investigations

Sommario/riassunto

PART ONE. Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge. I. Criteria and Judgment. II. Criteria and Skepticism. III. Austin and Examples. IV. What a Thing Is (Called). V. Natural and Conventional. PART TWO. Skepticism and the Existence of the World. VI. The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening. VII. Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language. VIII. The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing. PART THREE. Knowledge and the Concept of Morality. IX. Knowledge and the Basis of Morality. X. An Absence of Morality. XI. Rules and Reasons. XII. The Autonomy of Morals. PART FOUR. Skeptici