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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798326603321

Titolo

Wittgenstein and normative inquiry / / edited by Mark Bevir, Andrius Galisanka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-32410-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 pages)

Collana

Studies in Moral Philosophy, , 2211-2014 ; ; Volume 9

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Normativity (Ethics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Mark Bevir and Andrius Gališanka -- Introduction: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Normative Inquiry / Mark Bevir and Andrius Gališanka -- Normativity and Ethics in the Tractatus: Method, Self and Value / Chon Tejedor -- Wittgenstein: Values, Normative Inquiry, and the Problem of “Criticizing from Outside” / John G. Gunnell -- Wittgenstein’s Blue Book, Linguistic Meaning and Music / Garry L. Hagberg -- Wittgenstein in Pitkin’s Republic / A.A. Johannis -- “The Machine as Symbol”: Wittgenstein’s Contribution to the Politics of Judgment and Freedom in Contemporary Democratic Theory / Linda M.G. Zerilli -- Wittgenstein and Mid-20th Century Political Philosophy: Naturalist Paths from Facts to Values / Andrius Gališanka -- Wittgenstein’s Paganism / Kevin Cahill -- Wittgenstein and the Peculiarities of Religious “Belief” / Brian R. Clack -- Index / Mark Bevir and Andrius Gališanka.

Sommario/riassunto

Wittgenstein and Normative Inquiry examines the relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy for ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, and religion. It analyzes the intellectual contexts which shaped Wittgenstein's normative thought, traces his influences, and presents contemporary uses of his philosophy in normative fields. The chapters focus on the nature of normative inquiry. Together, they present a Wittgensteinian approach to normative inquiry, which, while broad and contested, stands in contrast to dominant deductive approaches. Arguing to normative conclusions by showing family resemblances,



drawing analogies, using persuasion, appealing to naturalist arguments, authors and Wittgensteinians discussed by them expand our notion of normative inquiry.