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By Norman Malcolm

Wittgenstein is essentially recognized for his paintings on philosophy of good judgment, language and brain, yet he used to be a cult determine at Cambridge whilst he taught there within the first half the 20 th century.

Part of this, i feel, has to do together with his eccentric yet enduringly interesting perspectives on ethics and faith. during this publication, the past due Norman Malcolm, a protege of Wittgenstein's, examines a curioius comment Wittgenstein makes to his buddy Maurice O'Drury--along the traces of 'seeing each challenge from a spiritual aspect of view'. it really is curious simply because W. was once no longer non secular within the conventional feel. but he used to be a deep philosopher, keen about his personal angle towards existence. He used to be, in a feeling, a grippingly non secular guy, and Malcolm's publication is a necessary try to comprehend Wittgenstein's spiritual angle towards life.

I suggest it for these attracted to Wittgenstein, faith or spirituality.

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1 Notice the striking similarity between Butterfield’s assumption and the assumption of Wittgenstein in the Notebooks that in regard to the ‘elementary propositions’, ‘there must be something common to them; otherwise I could not speak of all of them collectively as the “elementary propositions”’ (NB, p. 90). If we reflect on military battles that have occurred in human history we will remember that there have been battles between foot soldiers and foot soldiers, cavalry and foot soldiers, cavalry and cavalry.

He said there that he had learned that ‘my results (which I had communicated in lectures, typescripts and discussions), variously misunderstood, more or less mangled or watered down, were in circulation. This stung my vanity and I had difficulty in quieting it’ (PI, Preface, p. ix). What is especially interesting, however, for my present purpose, is his remark that his philosophical labour, which was truly 18 A RELIGIOUS MAN? enormous, is of value ‘only if it receives a light from above’. What is the meaning of this phrase ‘a light from above’?

Suppose that you made a gesture towards two people, A and B, and said ‘Come here’. A comes forward. You say, ‘No. ’ What took place, which consisted in your meaning B and not A? (see Z, 22). Was it something that went on in your mind, when you made that gesture and uttered the words, ‘Come here’? Is the meaning, or ‘sense’, of a sentence determined by something other than truth-conditions? Do truth-conditions come into it at all? What is ‘the general concept’ of the meaning or sense of sentences?

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