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Augustine and Wittgenstein

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This collection examines the relationship between Augustine and Wittgenstein and demonstrates the deep affinity they share, not only for the substantive issues they treat but also for the style of philosophizing they employ. Wittgenstein saw certain salient Augustinian approaches to concepts like language-learning, will, memory, and time as prompts for his own philosophical explorations, and he found great inspiration in Augustine's highly personalized and interlocutory style of writing philosophy. Each in his own way, in an effort to understand human experience more fully, adopts a mode of philosophizing that involves questioning, recognizing confusions, and confronting doubts. Beyond its bearing on such topics as language, meaning, knowledge, and will, their analysis extends to the nature of religious belief and its fundamental place in human experience. The essays collected here consider a broad range of themes, from issues regarding teaching, linguistic meaning, and self-understanding to miracles, ritual, and religion.
Chapter1. Wittgenstein and Augustine De Magistro Chapter2. Learning by Ostension in Augustine and Wittgenstein Chapter3. In the Beginning: Wittgenstein Reads Augustine Chapter4. The Swine and the Chatterbox Chapter5. Wittgenstein, Ritual, and "St. Augustine's Attitude to Sex" Chapter6. Wittgenstein and Augustine on Seeing Miracles Chapter7. Original Sense: Augustine and Wittgenstein on Religion and Origins Chapter8. Wittgenstein, Augustine, and the Content of Memory Chapter9. Time and freedom in the Confessions and the Tractatus Chapter10. Augustine and Wittgenstein on the Will
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