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Living with Rules

Wittgensteinian Reflections on Normativity

Ondřej Beran author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:22nd Mar '18

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The book proposes to see the talk about rules-following as a way of giving an account of particular people’s characters and their lives. This focus on understanding others as variously coping with the claims of particular rules attempts to specify the variety of "attitudes towards a soul" as discussed in the Wittgensteinian tradition. The book derives from the philosophical tradition that considers human beings as rule-following creatures. It suggests that rules followed by other people allow for understanding and sympathising with them. Coping with rules is explored as a complicated lived practice, with respect to: particularised rules holding in relation to a context or to individual people, the variety of our responses to rules we are subject to, or our failure in coping with them.

ISBN: 9783631735923

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 375g

232 pages

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