Filsafat Manusia merupakan perkenalan dengan filsafat pada umumnya, maka pembahasannya dalam buku ini dirumuskan dengan sederhana dan penjelasannya dekat dengan penghayatan yang direfleksikan. Secara singkat, keterangan tentang filsuf serta aliran filsafat yang beraneka ragam disertakan pula di dalamnya. Filsafat Manusia ini diharapkan dapat membantu pembaca untuk berfilsafat tidak hanya sekeda…
The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules. Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communita…
Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his theory that meaning is a function of language games and that social configurations are determinants…
"Baker and Hacker...exhibit persuasively and lucidly the order...underlying the apparently haphazard assemblage of paragraphs constituting the printed text of the Investigations." The Review of Metaphysics "Its detailed textual comments are placed within a carefully thought out view of the structure ot the whole. It thus provides a model for understanding Wittgenstein." Philosophical Studies.
Wittgenstein believed that the best way to understand the "Philosophical Investigations" was to come to it via the "Tractatus". The author shares this belief and in this book presents the dramatic conflict between two radically different philosophical positions. Contrary to some current interpretations, Malcolm believes that when Witgenstein wrote the "Investigations" he had an exact knowledge …
Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference. "It was Wittgenstein's habit to record his thoughts in sequences of more or less closely related 'remarks' which he kept in notebooks throughout his life. The editor of this collection has gone through the…