Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; From passing over in silence to the elucidation of grammar; Thinking about religion and ethics in Wittgenstein's wake; Summary of chapters; Notes; 1 The Early Wittgenstein on Ethical Religiousness as a Dispositional Attitude; The Transcendental Reading; The Dispositional Reading; Notes; 2 'The Problem of Life'; Introduction: The personal and the universal; The problem of Wittgenstein's life: The insidious poison of anxiety
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8 Wittgenstein and the Distinctiveness of Religious Language; The face value theory of religious language; Challenging the face value theory; Wittgenstein on religion; Wittgenstein and the opposition; Conclusion; Notes; 9 Number and Transcendence; Number, logic and reality; Numerical Platonism; Number and sign; The strange numerical kinship of Wittgenstein with Plato; Infinity and calculation; Platonizing Cantor, rendering Wittgenstein realist; Wittgenstein and Aristotle: Infinity and motion; Cantor versus Wittgenstein's Fregeanism
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From number to the divine, from motion to metaphysics: Against Wittgenstein's transcendentalism; Notes; 10 What Have I Done?; Double effect and the limits of negative responsibility; The publicity of the mental; What intention isn't; Against closeness; Intention and convention; Intention, convention and some familiar old chestnuts; Notes; 11 Wittgenstein and the Value of Clarity; Wittgenstein against reduction; Examples of blurring distinctions; Orwell versus vagueness; Williams on power; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Moving towards the universal problem of life: From anxiety over philosophical work to anxiety over everything; Is life really as insecure as all that? And is its insecurity really significant enough to be worthy of such great anxiety?; Conclusion: The difficulty of acknowledging the problem; Notes; 3 Wittgenstein and the Study of Religion; The 'Wittgensteinian fideism' debate; Rejecting and affirming Wittgensteinian fideism; Wittgenstein's naturalism; The natural and the religious; Concluding remarks; Notes; 4 Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and Chalcedon; Wittgenstein, ethics and aesthetics
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Wittgenstein, Christian belief and Kierkegaard; Chalcedon and the grammar of 'God'; Notes; 5 On the Very Idea of a Theodicy; A critique of the anthropomorphic view; God as moral consequentialist; An alternative conception: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Wittgenstein, Analogy and Religion in Mulhall's The Great Riddle; Nonsense and its uses; Analogy and projectibility; Theology and philosophy; Notes; 7 Riddles, Nonsense and Religious Language; Absolute value, riddles and great riddles; Silence speaks: Three glances at the 2013 Gifford Lectures; Notes