Logic Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein by Philip R. Shields HARDBACK

Name: Logic Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein by Philip R. Shields HARDBACK
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Logic and Sin in the Writings of Ludwig WittgensteinAuthor(s): Philip R. Shields\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226753010, 978-0226753010\nSynopsis\nPhilip R. Shields shows that ethical and religious concerns inform even the most technical writings on logic and language, and that, for Wittgenstein, the need to establish clear limitations is both a logical and an ethical demand. Rather than merely saying specific things about theology and religion, major texts from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigations express their fundamentally religious nature by showing that there are powers which bear down upon and sustain us. Shields finds a religious view of the world at the very heart of Wittgenstein's philosophy. \""Shields argues that the appearance throughout Wittgenstein's writings of such concepts as ritual, limit, transgression, a change of will, pride, temptation, and judgment ims