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The great riddle : Wittgenstein and nonsense, theology and philosophy /

Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for expression. Stephen Mulhall critically evaluates the claims of this movement (as exemplified in the work of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mulhall, Stephen, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Colección:Stanton lectures ; 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy: The Stanton Lectures 2014; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Lecture One: Nonsense and Theology: Exhausting the Options?; Lecture Two: The Flounder and the Fisherman's Wife: Tractarian Ethics, the Mystical, and the Religious; 2.1 Fairy-Tale Ethics; 2.2 Anselm Revisited; Lecture Three: Grammatical Thomism: Five Ways of Refusing to Make Sense; 3.1 Wittgensteinian Worries about Grammatical Thomism; 3.2 Wittgensteinian Worries about these Wittgensteinian Worries
  • Lecture Four: Analogical Uses and the Projectiveness of Words: Wittgenstein's Vision of Language4.1 Analogy and (Dis-)proportion: Mathematical Sources and Models; 4.2 Analogy, Projectibility, and Relatedness of Meaning; Lecture Five: Perfections and Transcendentals: Wittgenstein's Vision of Philosophy; 5.1 Perfections, Paradigms, and Projections; 5.2 Transcendentals: Analogical or Univocal?; Lecture Six: Authority and Revelation: Philosophy and Theology; 6.1 Drawing the Circle to End All Circles; 6.2 The Ethics and Theology of Testimony; 6.3 Conclusion: The Temptation of Intelligibility