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“Transcending the World: Wittgenstein, God, and the Usayable"

Mario Von Der Ruhr, Mario Von Der Ruhr

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Swansea University Author: Mario Von Der Ruhr

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“I know nothing of religion”, Wittgenstein once told his friend Heinrich Groag, “but there is surely something right in the concept of a God and of an after-life – only something quite different from what we are capable of imagining.” The remark is part of a comprehensive spiritual self-assessment o...

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