Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy and a 'Religious Point of View' -- Wittgenstein's Tractarian say and show distinction -- A Tractarian reading of Wittgenstein's 'religious point of view' -- Wittgenstein's post-Tractatus thought -- Towards a post-Tractarian discussion of Wittgenstein's 'religious point of view' -- 2 Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy and Religion -- Wittgenstein's later philosophy as analogous to a 'religious point of view' -- The problem of equating philosophy and religion and the importance of religious examples -- Towards a concrete discussion of a religious analogy -- The clarification of Wittgenstein's philosophy and a 'religious point of view' -- 3 Wittgenstein and Greek Thought -- An aspect of 'Greek' thought -- Wittgenstein and the problem of 'disembodied' language -- Back to the ground: 'embodied' language and religion -- 4 Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy and Hebraic Thought -- Hebraic links to Wittgenstein -- Hebraic thought as 'embodied' -- Hebraic thought and Wittgenstein's later understanding of language -- The problem of idols: the golden calf and philosophical confusion -- Shields's treatment of idols -- A Hebraic and Wittgensteinian treatment of idols -- 5 Wittgenstein's Religious Point of View -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.

Wittgenstein once said, 'I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view'. However, since he never advocated any one religion many people have wondered just what this religious point of view could be. This book answers this question by clarifying the overall nature(s) of his philosophies (the early and the later) and then by exploring the idea of a religious point of view as an analogy for a philosophy. As a result, the author reveals the concordance between the later Wittgenstein and central aspects of Hebraic thought. Although perhaps this ought not to be surprising (Wittgenstein himself described his thought as 'one hundred per cent Hebraic'), the truth of the matter has been obscured by popular supposition that Wittgenstein was anti-Semitic.

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