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Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy Of Language Study

Posted on:2008-02-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J H MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360215985737Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Language philosophy is an important research field of modern westernphilosophy and an important but noticed ordinary research object of everyphilosophical schools of thought, Which studies mainly the language problemof philosophy or the philosophical problem of language, the characters and theordinary features of language,the meaning,the indication,the truth and so onform the angle of philosophy. Many experts and scholars in the academic circlesof philosophy,linguistics and logic attach importance to the languagephilosophy and spread out to research in recent many years.An important feature of modern western philosophy is that manyphilosophists think that language philosophy is not on the base of metaphysicsor theory of knowledge,on the contary, they are on the base of languagephilosophy. The philosophical problem can be clarified or settled only by theanalyzing of language. The development of western philosophy went throughthree stages: ontology, theory of knowledge and language philosophy. HoweverWittgenstein is the first person that promoted decisively the linguistic turning ofthe 20th century western philosophy. He did not promise to the puzzlingwesterners, but enlarged a ken of watching the world form the angle oflanguage and provided a method of going out traditional culture. He was not thesame as the Viyella School which hates metaphysics, but also the Oxfordschool which are good at the analyzing of language, but he had great effects onthe two schools. Thus, we have to ponder deeply his thoughts to reveal hisunique ideas. It should be said, Wittgenstein's philosophy thoughts,especiallyhis later thoughts have been concerned, but the interest of researchers is mainlythe connectin of Wittgenstein and the movement of analyzing philosophy suchas the form of language, the logic analyzing and the structure of the world untilnow. Nobody or few people revealed the unique place from the development ofthe whole western philosophy. There is a philosophical background that whatculture or tradition are the researching subjects placed in. Now we seeWittgenstein as the ananlyzing philosophist, but when we understoodWittgenstein's works, we found that we can not explain satisfactorily hisimportant ideas (especially his later thoughts).According to the situation, at first I analyze and explain the role theory--- the theory of the picture to point out its theoretical difficulties. Because of thedividing of the "sayable" and "unsayable" things, Wittgenstein criticized thefore thinking.Secondly, this paper argues his early and later ontologies and their decisiveeffect in the context of the influence of two cultures. The early ontology, whichdelimitates itself in the sayable "World" and eliminates the unsayable "MysticalThings", is contrary to him in tention that" Mystical Things" should be cherished.This inherent contradiction makes the transition from his early ontology to laterontology, which has a great theoretical meaning: the later ontology of "Form ofLife", which deletes the demarcation between what can be said and what can't besaid, becomes the solid foundation of human's practice.By the multi-level comparison and the multi-angle observation, I analyze thelanguage game and the effect on everyday language by the means of scientificinduction on the new horizon for seeing a new annotating structure.Its base is language problem, which longitude meridian is the conflictionand amalgamation of scientism and humanism, crossing thread is form thelanguage criticism of the fore and after thinking into the language conversion. Itsmethods are the multi-level comparison and the multi-angle observation, whichtopic is regarding the linguistic philosophy of Wittgenstein as a polygonal mirrorin order to analyze the breaking or continuance. At last I make the conclusion thatthe fore and after thinking is a system, the language philosophy of Wittgensteinhave a great influence on the western philosophy. As we know, the two worldsare different, but the latter world is a continuance on the base of the fore.
Keywords/Search Tags:the theory of the picture, conversion, language game, ordinary language
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