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Philosophical Health: Wittgenstein's Method in 'Philosophical Investigations'
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Philosophical Health: Wittgenstein's Method in 'Philosophical Investigations'
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Philosophical Health: Wittgenstein's Method in 'Philosophical Investigations'
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The style of Wittgenstein's writing in his
seems quite peculiar to many readers, and is in many way unlike any other style of writing in the history of philosophy. In
, Richard Gilmore argues that Wittgenstein's ultimate goal in the "Investigations" is to restore us to a condition of philosophical health. The traditional methods and styles of doing philosophy, Gilmore suggests, led to a strange kind of philosophical sickness. Philosophical health is a condition that does not repudiate the philosophical search or philosophical wonder, but does free us from a kind of sickness that results from looking in the wrong places for the wrong kinds of answers. According to Gilmore, Wittgenstein thought that to do philosophy in the right way we have to pay careful attention to the way we speak and think about things in our everyday lives.
is an original and thought-provoking look at Wittgenstein's later philosophy.