The Great Riddle

The Great Riddle
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 147
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780191071614
ISBN-13 : 0191071617
Rating : 4/5 (617 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Great Riddle by : Stephen Mulhall

Download or read book The Great Riddle written by Stephen Mulhall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for expression. Stephen Mulhall critically evaluates the claims of this movement (as exemplified in the work of Herbert McCabe and David Burrell) to be a legitimate inheritor of Wittgenstein's philosophical methods as well as Aquinas's theological project. The major obstacle to this claim is that Grammatical Thomism makes the nonsensicality of religious language when applied to God a touchstone of Thomist insight, whereas 'nonsense' is standardly taken to be solely a term of criticism in Wittgenstein's work. Mulhall argues that, if Wittgenstein is read in the terms provided by the work of Cora Diamond and Stanley Cavell, then a place can be found in both his early work and his later writings for a more positive role to be assigned to nonsensical utterances—one which depends on exploiting an analogy between religious language and riddles. And once this alignment between Wittgenstein and Aquinas is established, it also allows us to see various ways in which his later work has a perfectionist dimension—in that it overlaps with the concerns of moral perfectionism, and in that it attributes great philosophical significance to what theology and philosophy have traditionally called 'perfections' and 'transcendentals', particularly concepts such as Being, Truth, and Unity or Oneness. This results in a radical reconception of the role of analogous usage in language, and so in the relation between philosophy and theology.


The Great Riddle Related Books

The Great Riddle
Language: en
Pages: 147
Authors: Stephen Mulhall
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of
Biggest Riddle Book in the World
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Joseph Rosenbloom
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1976 - Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

GET EBOOK

A collection of riddles on a wide range of topics for jokesters of all ages.
The Great Book of Riddles: 250 Magnificent Riddles, Puzzles and Brain Teasers
Language: en
Pages: 179
Authors: Peter Keyne
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-18 - Publisher: Elsinore Books

GET EBOOK

This family-sized compendium presents 250 of the greatest riddles and puzzles of all time. There are classical logic puzzles, lateral thinking puzzles, “who a
Best Riddle Book Ever
Language: en
Pages: 100
Authors: Charles Keller
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

GET EBOOK

A collection of over 500 riddles on many different subjects.
Riddles
Language: en
Pages: 74
Authors: Tony Davis
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-22 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Do you want to be tested by some of the most fun riddles around?This book contains hundreds of the best, most challenging, funny, interesting, and enjoyable rid