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Criticizing Forms of Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

W. W. Sharrock  and
R. J. Anderson
W. W. Sharrock
Affiliation:
University of Manchester and Manchester Polytechnic
R. J. Anderson
Affiliation:
University of Manchester and Manchester Polytechnic
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Philosophy , Volume 60 , Issue 233 , July 1985 , pp. 394 - 400
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1985

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References

1 Hinman, Lawrence M., ‘Can a Form of Life Be Wrong?’, Philosophy 58 (1983), 339–351CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 We use ‘ways of life’ in preference to ‘forms of life’ because we are far from sure that Wittgenstein's use of that expression was meant to refer to social institutions and cultural practices. We are sure that there are reasons for interpreting it otherwise. See, for example, Beehler, Rodger, Moral Life (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978), 93Google Scholar.

3 Winch, Peter, ‘Understanding a Primitive Society’ in his Ethics and Action (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972), 15Google Scholar.

4 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Basil Black-well, 1953), 240, see also 241Google Scholar.

5 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1966)Google Scholar.

6 Ibid., 53.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid., 56.

9 Ibid.

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11 Winch, Peter, The Idea of a Social Science, (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958)Google Scholar.

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13 We are grateful to Ilham Dilman for his helpful comments on an earlier draft.