Showing papers in "Philosophical Investigations in 1993"

DISCUSSION.: Philosophical Investigations 133: Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy'

Abstract: Tant que nous n'aurons pas d'idees claires sur le fonctionnement du langage, il y aura des epreuves pour la philosophie de Wittgenstein

Satisfied Pigs and Dissatisfied Philosophers: Schlesinger on the Problem of Evil

Abstract: I argue that George Schlesinger's proposed solution to the problem of evil fails because: (1) the degree of desirability of state of a being is not properly regarded as a trade-off between happiness on the one hand and potential on the other; (2) degree of desirability of state is not capable of infinite increase; (3) there is no hierarchy of possible beings, but at most an ordering of such beings in terms of preferences; (4) the idea of such a hierarchy is anyway morally repulsive. Schlesinger is right that the problem of evil disappears, but what makes it vanish is a recognition of the limits of our concepts of satisfaction and happiness, not the incoherent claim that satisfaction or happiness is capable of unlimited increase.

Of Tennis, Persons and Politics

Abstract: C'est dans le contexte de la perception de Weil, de la philosophie et de la connaissance comme affaires d'action et de pratique que l'A. vise a demontrer les elements cles de sa conception de la personne humaine et sa philosophie politique

Idling Rules. The Importance of Part II of Philosophical Investigations

Abstract: La facon dont Wittgenstein traite en Partie II des « Investigations philosophiques » de linterpretabilite des concepts induit non seulement le scepticisme radical mais influe aussi sur toutes sortes de descriptions du langage

Philosophy & Literature: Settling a Quarrel?*

Abstract: Analyse de M. Nussbaum de la relation entre philosophie et litterature dans « The Fragility of Goodness »