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‘Around the axis of our real need’: On the Ethical Point of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy
Author(s) -
Krebs Victor J.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0378.00141
Subject(s) - citation , point (geometry) , philosophy , epistemology , library science , computer science , mathematics , geometry
Academic philosophy in our day stands to Wittgenstein as intellectual life in Germany in the first decades of the last century stood to Kant. Kant had changed everything, but no one was sure just what Kant had said – no one was sure what in Kant to take seriously and what to put aside [. . .] Philosophers are in an analogous situation now [. . .] In this situation, a split has come about between [. . .] ‘systematic linguistic philosophy’ on the one hand and ‘wittgensteinian philosophy’ on the other.1