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Nordic Wittgenstein Review
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ISSN 2194-6825 · Nordic Wittgenstein Society · 271 articles in the index
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Raimond Gaita's Nun and Unconditional Love
Raimond Gaita’s witness of a nun engaging with patients in the psychiatric hospital where he worked as a student indelibly marked both his life and his philosophising. What he witnessed helped shape for him a conception of “absolute” value, linked to the power of love, which has animated nearly…
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What Was Already There
The first half of the paper discusses Wittgenstein’s critique of metaphysics in the Philosophical Investigations, why metaphysical uses of language are idling, by examining the rationale and method of inquiry informing Descartes’ first principle of philosophy. The focus will be on clarifying how it…
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Moral Integrity
In his essay “Moral integrity”, Peter Winch criticises the conception of morality as a guide to action. What such a conception overlooks is the understanding of something as a moral problem, what it is that calls one to do something in the first place. In this paper, I discuss these issues in…
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The Peculiar Hiddenness of Keeping a Secret
With the guidance of Lars Herzberg’s view on living our life with language in his three essays “The Indeterminacy of the Mental” (1983), “The Kind of Certainty is the Kind of Language Game” (1985) and “On the Attitude of Trust” (1988), this paper discusses Jane Austen’s narration in her novel Sense…
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Silencing Conscience
What does it take, morally and psychologically, to kill and harm others? This article argues that committing deadly violence against others requires that we repress our basic moral understanding of them and neutralize the moral significance of our actions. Indeed, it proposes that violence and evil…
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The Interchanges to Which Our Moral Utterances Belong
Lars Hertzberg suggests that it is obvious that “getting clear about the sense of our moral utterances is a matter of getting clear about the nature of the interchanges to which they belong”. The paper explores the significance of this through illustrations, drawn from Hertzberg’s work, of the…
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Conscience, Love and the Difficulty of Morality
Moral philosophers often feel a need to underpin ethics with a metaphysical or supernatural law or principle, the idea being that would it be only for human beings, there could be no goodness. In this paper, I show the implausibility of this idea, by criticizing the fundamental role I assigned to…
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"Did He Love?"
Several philosophers attached to the research environment at Åbo Akademi University have turned to Wittgenstein’sremarks on philosophical psychology to clarify what an investigation of ethics could entail in the light of his later thought. They have thus heeded the advice of Elizabeth Anscombe to…
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Minstrel Shows and Murderous Tautologies
Moral understanding is, Lars Hertzberg writes, “absolutely personal” (2022, 105). Alas, this understanding is attacked and obfuscated by what Simone Weil called “the commonest of crimes” in the moral-existential-spiritual realm: the “idolatry” of attributing “a sacred character to the collectivity”…
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Love, Goodness and Moral Understanding: Two Reflections
The article examines the relation between love and moral understanding in the context of post-Wittgensteinian ethics via two examples, the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan and Raimond Gaita’s autobiographical account of an encounter with a loving nun. The article suggests that the examples…
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Religion, Meaning, and the Limits of Explanation: Wittgenstein on Frazer
Summary: This paper explores Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, advancing the working hypothesis that these reflections emerge at the intersection of three key ideas that Wittgenstein decisively resists. First, Wittgenstein challenges the assumption that language games can be analyzed…
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Two Types of Philosophical Therapy: Wittgenstein’s Late Discovery of Freud
A variety of influential readers of Wittgenstein endorse the view that Wittgenstein consistently held onto one conception philosophical therapy (the ‘singularity assumption’). This article argues against the singularity assumption such that there are two fundamentally different types of…
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A Selection of a Selection – Notes on MS 168
Abstract Among Wittgenstein’s late notebooks from 1947-1949, MS 168 attracts a certain interest. MS 168 is a puzzle among Wittgenstein’s Nachlass. In the literature the notebook has been discussed only briefly and sporadically. This article draws attention to its existence, content and place in the…
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Lichtung — Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ingeborg Bachmann
The present contribution brings to light the pivotal role of Austrian poet and philosopher Ingeborg Bachmann for the publication of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings in German — a philosopher who once noted: "Ich glaube meine Stellung zur Philosophie dadurch zusammengefaßt zu haben indem ich sagte…