Wittgenstein, Augustine and the fantasy of ascent

Philosophical Investigations

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-171

  Thompson, Caleb ^a,b  

^a St John's College

^b ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 60949303680     PISSN: 01900536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9205.00168     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. M. O'C. Drury, "Some Notes on Conversations with Wittgenstein", Recollections of Wittgenstein, ed. R. Rhees (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984) 79
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Philosophy", Philosophical Occasions, ed. J. Klagge and A. Nordmann (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993) 161-2
3. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore, ed. G. H. von Wright and B. F. McGuinness (Oxford: Basil Blackewell, 1974) 10
4. Drury, "Some Notes," 79
5. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. C. K. Ogden (London: Routledge, 1922) §6.54. Elsewhere I have cited the Tractatus parenthetically in the text as TLP
6. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, trans. Peter Winch (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1980) 7
7. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe (New York: Macmillan, 1969) ix. Elsewhere I have cited the Investigations parenthetically in the text as PI
8. James Conant, "Must we Show What We Cannot Say?" in The Senses of Stanley Cavell, eds. R. Fleming and M. Payne (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1989)
9. and Thomas Ricketts, "Pictures, Logic and the Limits of Sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus" in The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, eds. H. Sluga and D.G. Stern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
10. Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) VII, xvii (127). Elsewhere I have cited the Confessions parenthetically in the text. Roman numerals refer to books and chapters in the Confessions; Arabic numerals refer to pages in the Chadwick's translation
11. Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969) 150
12. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1979) 2
13. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, trans. J. Schulte and B.F. McGuinness (New York: Harper and Row, 1987) 182
14. Quoted in A. Kenny, "Wittgenstein on the Nature of Philosophy," The Legacy of Wittgenstein (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984) 46