Wittgensteinian Values - Philosophy, Religious Belief and Descriptivist Methodology

List of contents

1: Self-Renouncing Religious Belief: The Wittgensteinian Position; 2: Self-Renouncing Religious Belief in the Novels of Georges Bernanos; 3: Roots of the Wittgensteinian Position: The Weltbild of Self-Concern; 4: Conclusions and Beyond

About the author

Emyr Vaughan Thomas

Summary

This title was first published in 2001. This work examines the self-renouncing dimension which Wittgensteinian philosophy subscribes to ethico-religious ideals. "Wittensteinian values" are explored through a range of literary and cultural illustrations from Wittgenstein's own European milieu. The book also highlights an alternative model of self-renouncing faith, which has methodological implications for how a Wittgensteinian descriptivist approach should be carried out. Wittgensteinian assumptions about the nature of self-renunciation, the religious believer's orientation to the world and the place of the metaphysical in religion are among some of the elements that need to be reappraised.

Product details

• Authors: Emyr Vaughan Thomas, Vaughan Thomas, Emyr Vaughan Thomas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138716346
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71634-6
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism