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Wittgenstein argued that words have meaning “only in the stream of life.” Philosophical problems arise when “language goes on ...

1. It’s barely 30 years old, but this feels like the Great Granddaddy of philosophical biography. The book’s subtitle, “The Duty of Genius,” perfectly captures the subject. If the Austrian-born Ludwig ...

Very few people can claim to understand all the ideas that Vienna-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) advanced in logic, mathematics and language, but thanks to definitive books like Ray ...

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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 70, No. 3 (JULY 2020), pp. 679-698 (20 pages) Despite the cultural distance between the Analects of Confucius and the writings of Wittgenstein, both link ethical ...