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This book brings the different aspects of the study of ancient wisdom together and presents it as a subject in its own right, looking at wise deities, wise figures from myth and legend, wise characters from ancient history, practices associated with wisdom (including divination and healing), and wisdom as it appears in ancient literature.

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This book examines the multifarious nature of wisdom and explores the various types of wisdom and their interrelations. As an investigation of the nature of wisdom and its different expressions it addresses a concern of academic philosophy but also concerns of comparative studies, religious studies, and the humanities generally.

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This anthology focuses on the relationship of Wittgenstein's philosophy to currents and controversies in the contemporary philosophical scene. Most of these essays appear for the first time, some written specifically for this volume.

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An introduction to the work of the philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. It analyzes Wittgenstein's two major works, the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" and the "Philosophical Investigation", and sets his conclusions against the background of changes in the nature of philosophy in the 20th century.

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Argues that Wittgenstein, though himself often silent on particular ethical matters, gives us immense resources for understanding the aims appropriate to any philosophical ethics. This work re-examines some of the landmarks in the history of moral philosophy in order to cast contemporary ethical philosophy in a fresh light.

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Focuses on how Wittgenstein and Gadamer treat language in their accounts of language as game and their major writings on the subject - "Philosophical Investigations" and "Truth and Method", respectively. This book brings the work of two major modern philosophers in to dialogue.

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This work is guided by the idea that Wittgensteins thought opens the door to a more profound break with the philosophical tradition than has been generally recognized. It brings this insight to bear on some basic problems of philosophy.

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Exploration of the contradictory role metaphysics plays in Wittgenstein's work, revealing the importance of ethics, aesthetics and subjectivity to his overall project.

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Vinten looks at the relationship between Wittgensteins philosophy and the social sciences as well as at the ideological implications of Wittgensteins philosophy and applications of Wittgensteins philosophy to problems in social science. He examines and assesses the work of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Perry Anderson, and Chantal Mouffe.

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Vinten looks at the relationship between Wittgensteins philosophy and the social sciences as well as at the ideological implications of Wittgensteins philosophy and applications of Wittgensteins philosophy to problems in social science. He examines and assesses the work of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Perry Anderson, and Chantal Mouffe.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy comes alive when it is used as a vehicle for philosophical discovery, rather than when it is interpreted as a system of propositions. This volume offers a study of Wittgenstein's later work on the philosophy of psychology, his cryptic remarks on visual meaning and the analysis of the concept of perception.

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Analyses a host of issues in philosophy of mind and visual studies, including the concepts of visual meaning, visual qualia and the ineffability of visual experience. This work explores the relation between conceptual analysis and causal explanation in the theory of perception, and the relation between visual syntax and visual meaning.

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The first comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's philosophy of value to deal with ethics, aesthetics and religious value.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was one of the important and influential thinkers of the 20th century. This book studies Wittgenstein's philosophy of value to deal with ethics, aesthetics and religious value. It clarifies his many ideas and arguments related to the notion of value and implications of his work for debates in contemporary ethics.

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Wittgenstein's work is notoriously difficult to understand and, at least superficially, deals almost exclusively with obscure and technical problems in logic and the philosophy of language. He has been blamed for leading philosophers away from the problems of the real world.

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