Being Human.A Philosophical Anthropology after Wittgenstein

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The work presents thematically and convincingly the implied depth, rich content, and manifold conceptual ramifications of the human subject, offering a philosophical anthropology of 'being human' in the spirit of later Wittgenstein, making use of William, Evans, Campbell, etc. Wittgenstein's grammatical enquiries in the nature of the self is not a therapy for ending philosophy. It is an insistence that the debates that will and must continue to be conducted by careful and patient examination of how we live and how we describe how we live, examinations like that offered here that begin with the invitation to look and see. BEING HUMAN AFTER WITTGENSTEIN Volume 1 A Philosophical Anthropology BEING HUMAN AFTER WITTGENSTEIN Volume 1 A Philosophical Anthropology Jose Nandhikkara Table of Contents Abbreviations Foreword Preface Chapter 1 The ‘I’: Philosophical Explorations Chapter 2 The ‘I’: Philosophical Analysis 2.1. ‘The Deeply Mysterious I’ (NB 80) 2.2. ‘The Philosophical Self’ (TLP 5.641) 2.3. ‘The I Is … the Bearer of Good and Evil’ (NB 80) Chapter 3 The ‘I’: Philosophical Therapy 3.1. The Pernicious I: ‘Something for Philosophical Treatment‘ (PI 254) 3.2. Therapy I: ‘The Word ‘I’ … Can Be Eliminated from Language’ (WVC 49) 3.3. Therapy II: ‘The Word ‘I’ Does Not Designate a Person’ (PO 228) Chapter 4 The ‘I’: A Living Human Being 4.1. ‘“Carry out a Grammatical Investigation”‘ (PI 150) 4.4. ‘The Human Being Is the Best Picture of the Human Soul’ (CV 56) Chapter 5 Rule Following and Being Human 5.1. ‘What We Call “Obeying the Rule”‘ (PI 201) 5.2. “Here We Can’t Talk about “Right”‘ (PI 258) 5.4. ‘We Belong to a Community’ (OC 298) Chapter 6 Private Language and Being Human 6.1. Treatment of Private Language 6.2. ‘How Do Words Refer to Sensations’? (PI 244) 6.3. ‘In What Sense Are My Sensations Private?’ (PI 246)