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Finally, integrity, faith and happiness
In search of integrity Assessing my physical, psychic, social, economic, and spiritual integrity is a daily practice. I am thankful for...
Oct 9, 202441 min read
Ethics in Democracy
Qualities of speech-acts and social realization of dignity I describe the speech-act as the social realization of interaction between a...
Mar 27, 202324 min read
Ethics and Discourse theory
Speech-acts. I describe the speech-act as the social realization of interaction between a speaker and at least one listener. The...
Mar 1, 202324 min read
Ethics
The content of Wittgenstein’s lecture on ethics that he delivered in Cambridge on November 17, 1929, is preserved in the drafts he...
Feb 4, 202324 min read
Wittgenstein and religious belief
Rush Rhees tells us that in 1931 Wittgenstein started developing his understanding of expressions about religions and the use of the word...
Dec 26, 202225 min read
Paul Lorenzen (1915-1994) confesses faith in Jesus Christ
The Czech mathematician and philosopher Vladimir Richter (1925-2013) was a Jesuit teaching logic and medieval philosophy at the...
Dec 13, 20229 min read
Sentences, sense, and logical truth
In the Tractatus Wittgenstein does not take up the example from Notebooks for explaining how we form sentences. In Notebooks he compares...
Dec 13, 202212 min read
Sentences and facts, sense and dignity
Wittgenstein published the Tractatus logico-philosophicus in Ostwald’s Annalen der Naturphilosophie in 1921. In this blog I usually cite...
Nov 17, 20229 min read
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