On the Difficulty of Speaking
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98084-9_5" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-98084-9_5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On the Difficulty of Speaking
Original language description
One of the things most important in the tradition of Wittgenstein-inspired moral philosophy is its emphasis on working with examples. This essay is an attempt to do just that. The example will be two scenes from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film Martha (1974). The task is to listen to the people talking in the scenes and to try to understand what they mean. This requires listening also to what they do not say, to what they struggle to say but do not succeed in expressing. Above all, it involves trying to understand where the difficulties lie. Against the background of such a discussion, questions about the possibility and nature of moral philosophy are raised, with reference to some of the central points made by Wittgenstein in his later philosophy. The basic phenomenon is not words meaning this and that but people meaning this and that, and meaning it to one another. For what is hard is not to utter certain words or sentences, but to utter them meaning what you are saying, and understanding what someone is saying is then not a fundamentally different thing from understanding her.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Ethical Inquiries after Wittgenstein
ISBN
978-3-030-98083-2
Number of pages of the result
14
Pages from-to
77-90
Number of pages of the book
279
Publisher name
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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