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- Frontmatter
- Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- Preface to Updated Edition of Must We Mean What We Say?
- Foreword: An Audience for Philosophy
- I Must We Mean What We Say?
- II The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy
- III Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy
- IV Austin at Criticism
- V Ending the Waiting Game
- VI Kierkegaard's
- VII Music Discomposed
- VIII A Matter of Meaning It
- IX Knowing and Acknowledging
- X The Avoidance of Love
- Thematic Index
- Index of Names
II - The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Permissions
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to Updated Edition of Must We Mean What We Say?
- Foreword: An Audience for Philosophy
- I Must We Mean What We Say?
- II The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy
- III Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy
- IV Austin at Criticism
- V Ending the Waiting Game
- VI Kierkegaard's
- VII Music Discomposed
- VIII A Matter of Meaning It
- IX Knowing and Acknowledging
- X The Avoidance of Love
- Thematic Index
- Index of Names
Summary
Epochs are in accord with themselves only if the crowd comes into these radiant confessionals which are the theatres or the arenas, and as much as possible, … to listen to its own confessions of cowardice and sacrifice, of hate and passion … For there is no theatre which is not prophecy. Not this false divination which gives names and dates, but true prophecy, that which reveals to men these surprising truths: that the living must live, that the living must die, that autumn must follow summer, spring follow winter, that there are four elements, that there is happiness, that there are innumerable miseries, that life is a reality, that it is a dream, that man lives in peace, that man lives on blood; in short, those things they will never know.
—Jean GiraudouxIn June of 1929 Wittgenstein was awarded a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, having returned to England, and to philosophy, less than a year earlier. His examiners were Russell and Moore, and for his dissertation he had submitted his Tractatus, published some seven or eight years earlier, written earlier than that, and now famous. The following month, he refused to read a paper (“Some Remarks on Logical Form”) which he had prepared for the joint session of the Mind Association and Aristotelian Society, and which obviously goes with the ideas he had worked out in the Tractatus.
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- Must We Mean What We Say?A Book of Essays, pp. 44 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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