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Natural Law, Motives, and Freedom of the Will
Author(s) -
Brenner William H.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9205.00144
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , epistemology , natural (archaeology) , natural law , philosophy , law , sociology , political science , history , archaeology
In this paper I piece together a Wittegnsteinian view of the topics indicated in my title, contrasting it with the views of Bertrand Russell and Donald Davidson ‐ two philosophers who, in words from the Blue Book , seem “constantly to see the method of science before their eyes.” I conclude that Wittegnstein helps us understand something those philosphers tend to overlook: that “freedom of the will” gets its meaning not in a belief to be assessed by evidence but, on the contrary, in the expression of a way of living and assessing life that limits the role of “assessing beliefs by evidence.”