In Search of Meaning : : Ludwig Wittgenstein on Ethics, Mysticism and Religion / / edited by Ulrich Arnswald.

• TeilnehmendeR: Arnswald, Ulrich,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : KIT Scientific Publishing,, 2009.; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 pages)

The essays collected in this volume explore some of the themes that have been at the centre of recent debates within Wittgensteinian scholarship. In opposition to what we are tentatively inclined to think, the articles of this volume invite us to understand that our need to grasp the essence of ethi...

Table of Contents

• Preface Ulrich Arnswald . vii
• List of Abbreviations of Frequently Cited References xi
• 1 The Paradox of Ethics-'It leaves everything as it is.' Ulrich Arnswald 1
• 2 'There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words.' (TLP 6.522) Wittgenstein's Ethics of Showing Dieter Mersch 25
• 3 'If there is any value that does have value, it must lie outside the whole sphere of what happens and is the case.' (TLP 6.41) Liam Hughes . 51
• 4 Philosophy and Life Anja Weiberg . 67
• 5 Sense of Ethics and Ethical Sense Jens Kertscher . 87
• 6 The Convergence of God, the Self, and the World in Wittgenstein's Tractatus John Churchill . 113
• 7 'Objectively there is no truth' - Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Religious Belief Genia Schönbaumsfeld . 131
• About the Contributors . 149
• Index 151.