Wittgenstein's (misunderstood) religious thought /
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| Author / Creator: | Fronda, Earl Stanley B. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. |
| Description: | xxi, 242 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophy of religion. World religions, 2210-481X ; v. 1 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8164098 |
Table of Contents:
- Volume Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- List of Initials and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Wittgenstein's Religious Point of View
- I. To take or not to take Wittgenstein's remark at face value
- II. Mysticism as Wittgenstein's religious point of View
- III. The merits of positing mysticism as Wittgenstein's religious point of view
- Chapter 2. The Theology of the Early Wittgenstein
- I. The mystical Wittgenstein
- II. Wittgenstein's apophaticism
- III. The Pseudo-Dionysian theology
- IV. Wittgenstein's theology is Pseudo-Dionysian
- Chapter 3. The Mature Wittgenstein on (Religious) Language
- I. On language
- II. On the limits of language
- III. The trouble with speaking of the unspeakable
- IV. On religious language
- Chapter 4. The Mature Wittgenstein on Seeing and (not) Speaking of God
- I. Speaking of the mind
- II. Speaking of God
- III. Some objections
- IV. Wittgenstein à la St. Thomas Aquinas
- V. Seeing God
- Chapter 5. 'God exists' after Wittgenstein after St. Thomas Aquinas
- I. 'God exists' after Wittgenstein
- II. God exists as a grammatical hinge
- III. St. Thomas Aquinas on 'God exists'
- IV. Wittgenstein à la St. Thomas
- Chapter 6. Wittgenstein on the (Supposed) Evidence for God's Existence
- I. On miracles as evidence of the divine
- II. On religious experience as evidence of the divine
- III. The orderliness of the universe as evidence of the divine
- IV. Faith creates the evidence that justifies faith
- Chapter 7. Wittgenstein's Religious Realism with Attitude
- I. Cupitt's idealist Wittgenstein
- II. From behaviourism to religious non-realism
- III. Wittgenstein's anti-realism and his realist attitude
- IV. Realism/non-realism and Wittgenstein's God
- V. 'God' and 'colour'
- VI. Apophatic theology and God-universe bi-conditionality
- Chapter 8. The Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion is misunderstood
- I. The criticisms against the Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion
- II. Two discursive traditions about God as (not) a being
- III. Wittgenstein in line with the Plotinian tradition
- IV. The criticisms are borne of nescience or obliviousness
- Chapter 9. Concluding remarks: The difference it makes in understanding Wittgenstein's religious point of view
- I. Wittgenstein's religious point of view and other non-religious matters
- II. Wittgenstein's religious point of view and the conduct of philosophy of religion
- III. Concluding remarks on non-realism, crypto-atheism and fideism
- Bibliography
- Index
