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Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics (Hardcover)
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Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics (Hardcover)
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In Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics, Cora
Diamond follows two major European philosophers as they think about
thinking, as well as about our ability to respond to thinking that
has miscarried or gone astray. Acting as both witness to and
participant in the encounter, Diamond provides fresh perspective on
the importance of the work of these philosophers and the value of
doing philosophy in unexpected ways. Diamond begins with the
Tractatus (1921), in which Ludwig Wittgenstein forges a link
between thinking about thought and the capacity to respond to
misunderstandings and confusions. She then considers G. E. M.
Anscombe's An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (1959), in
which Anscombe, through her engagement with Wittgenstein, further
explores the limits of thinking and the ability to respond to
thought that has gone wrong. Anscombe's book is important, Diamond
argues, in challenging contemporary assumptions about what
philosophical problems are worth considering and about how they can
be approached. Through her reading of the Tractatus, Anscombe
exemplified an ethics of thinking through and against the grain of
common preconceptions. The result drew attention to the questions
that mattered most to Wittgenstein and conveyed with great power
the nature of his achievement. Diamond herself, in turn, challenges
Anscombe on certain points, thereby further carrying out just the
kind of ethical work Wittgenstein and Anscombe each felt was
crucial to getting things right. Through her textured engagement
with her predecessors, Diamond demonstrates what genuinely
independent thought is able to achieve.
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