Ludwig Wittgenstein : Ethics and Religion
Contents: Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. I. Foundations of Wittgenstein's views on ethics and religion: 1. Two Godheads: the world and the independent self/Bijoy H. Boruah. 2. Wittgenstein on good of ethics and God of religion/Ganesh Prasad Das. II. Wittgenstein's ethical point of view: 3. Wittgenstein's transcendental ethics: A re-construction/R.C. Pradhan. 4. Wittgenstein on moral consciousness/Ranjan K. Panda. 5. Wittgenstein on ethics and values/R.P. Singh. 6. Ethics in Wittgenstein: a critical appreciation/P.R. Bhat. 7. Wittgenstein and the Chimera of an independent arbiter in moral philosophy: Rawls's original position as an analytical failure/G.P. Ramachandra. 8. What is it to be Human?: a La Wittgenstein/Chinmoy Goswami. III. Wittgenstein's religious point of view: 9. Wittgenstein and the Christian faith/N. Sreekumar. 10. A different Wittgenstein: Christian or Judaic Esoteric?/Ranjit Chatterjee. 11. Confessions from an irreligious life/Sanil V. 12. Whether Wittgenstein a religious Fideist?/R.P. Srivastava. 13. Faith without recompense: Wittgenstein on religious belief/Vikram Singh Sirola. 14. Can there be religion without public sphere? an examination of Wittgenstein's approach to religion in the Metaphysical thinking of Habermas/S. Panneerselvam. 15. Religion: an important nonsense/Nirmalaya Narayan Chakraborty. Select bibliography. About the contributors. Index.
"This is a critical exposition of multiple facets of Ludwig Wittgenstein's thoughts on ethics and religion. First, it brings our foundations of Wittgenstein's views on ethics and religion. Then, it deals with various issues of current debates in the philosophy of Wittgenstein, such as notion of transcendental ethics, dichotomy between fact and value, distinction between religious and superstitious beliefs, notion of happiness and human being, discussions of fideism, whether Wittgenstein's methodology was Christian or Jew, Wittgenstein's religious thoughts in the context of logical positivism and Habermas.
It is useful not only for students of philosophy and theology but also for a lay reader who is interested in an in-depth analysis of the realm of meta-ethics and religious philosophy of language." (jacket)
