Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty
Daniele Moyal-Sharrock
This radical reading of Wittgenstein's third and last masterpiece, On Certainty , has major implications for philosophy. It elucidates Wittgenstein's ultimate thoughts on the nature of our basic beliefs and his demystification of skepticism. Our basic certainties are shown to be nonepistemic, nonpropositional attitudes that, as such, have no verbal occurrence but manifest themselves exclusively in our actions. This fundamental certainty is a belief- in , a primitive confidence or ur-trust whose practical nature bridges the hitherto unresolved catagorial gap between belief and action.
Anno:
2004
Casa editrice:
Palgrave Macmillan
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
263
ISBN 10:
0230504469
ISBN 13:
9781403921758
File:
PDF, 977 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2004