International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 67 (2):81 - 94 (2010)
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This paper examines Wittgenstein's conception of absolute safety in the light of two potential problems exposed by Winch. These are that, firstly: even if someone's life has been virtuous so far, the contingency of its remaining so until death vitiates the claim that the virtuous person cannot be harmed; and secondly: when voiced from a first-person standpoint, the claim to be absolutely safe due to one's virtuousness appears hubristic and self-undermining. I argue that Wittgenstein's mystical conception of safety, unlike some others, requires no claim about one's own virtue and hence can be construed as avoiding these problems
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Keywords | Wittgenstein, Ludwig Winch, Peter Absolute safety Moral harm Ethics Mysticism |
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DOI | 10.1007/s11153-009-9214-0 |
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. C. M. Colombo & Bertrand Russell - 1922 - Fratelli Bocca.
Lectures & Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief.Ludwig Wittgenstein (ed.) - 1966 - Blackwell.
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