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A collection of studies concerned with the ultimate basis of forms of language and most fundamental beliefs.
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Always provocative, written in a clear and lively style and dealing with issues that are much more than narrowly academic. CHOICE Always provocative, written in a clear and lively style and dealing with issues that are much more than narrowly academic. CHOICE
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Studies in Language and Reason
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Hardback. Condition: Good, sound, ex-library copy. Hardback. x, 218 pp. With particular focus on Plato, Hume and Wittgenstein. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, labels and numbers etc. Black cloth with gilt titles is very clean. Dust wrapper is clean but a little rubbed to edges. Good, sound, ex-library copy. Seller Inventory # 12638
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Studies in Language and Reason
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Macmillan Press, London - Basingstoke, 1981
ISBN 10: 0333284453
ISBN 13: 9780333284452
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1981. x, 218pp. Previous owner's signature to FFEP. Brief signed letter from the author to previous owner Peter Lewis (philosophy lecturer, Edinburgh Uni.) tipped in to front pastedown. Both book and price-clipped dust jacket are otherwise in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean. There are no other inscriptions. "What is the ultimate basis of our forms of language and most fundamental beliefs? Plato and Wittgenstein have contributed to the discussion of both sides of this question. The first three studies in the book consider Plato's contribution to it in the Phaedo. The studies on Hume and Wisdom relate to the second part of the question. The way Hume separated reason and feeling, understanding and will, made it difficult for him to see how a consideration of reasons could play a part in determining moral judgments and the will; he assigned a subordinate role to reason. Rightly concerned to rectify this mistake, Wisdom erred on the other side by not making enough of the personal dimension in moral beliefs. This is something which both Plato and Wittgenstein emphasized in their different ways. How we judge an action morally depends on both what the action is like and on what we are like in the sense of where we stand morally. But is the latter amenable to the scrutiny of reason? Can one ask, 'Are the values ??that I accept the right values?', as one can ask, 'What was the right thing to do?'? In the studies on Hume and Wisdom, Dilman argues for an affirmative answer.". Letter from the author tipped. Seller Inventory # PhilDilman02
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