Till Hoeppner (University of Gö\;ttingen) will give a lecture titled "Mental Acts and Representational Content in Descartes\, Malebranche\, Locke\, and Kant: Completing Act-Based Propositions Through a Progression of Insights From Modern Philosophy\," followed by a response from Benjamin Hill (University of Western Ontario).
\nThis lecture is organized by the Centre for the History of Philosophy and Continental Philosophy at Ghent University\, Belgium. \;
\nThe Teams link for the lecture is:
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/34257648332965?p=MvvRDIre48pjqT17DF \;
Contact: levi.haeck@ugent.be
\nFor more info\, see \;link below: \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Levi Haeck: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T112144Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261027T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261027T183000 SUMMARY:HICO LECTURE: The Tractatus as a War Book UID:20260922T112157Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:ac83:5bff:fea0:108%3 TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Blandijnberg 2\, Gent\, Belgium\, 9000 DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Marie McGinn (York University): Wittgenstein's Tractatus as a War Book
\nTuesday 27 October\, 4pm
\nFaculty Room\, Blandijn
\nAbstract
Although Wittgenstein formulated many of the problems that are the focus of his logical reflections in the Tractatus before the war\, the Tractatus is drafted and then written in its final form entirely within the context of the First World War. Not only that\, but the nature of the text was fundamentally changed by experiences and intellectual influences\, particularly his reading of Tolstoy on the Gospels\, that Wittgenstein underwent during the conflict. In the summer of 1916\, immediately after Wittgenstein had been through some of the greatest challenges of the war\, in three weeks of fierce fighting at the front during a major Russian offensive\, the text shifted from the purely logical text of the earliest draft of the Prototractatus to a text which includes reflections on ethics. The change is so profound that Wittgenstein could write of the Tractatus\, in a letter to von Ficker: &ldquo\;The book&rsquo\;s point is an ethical one.&rdquo\; The remarks on ethics that eventually found their way into the Tractatus\, had their origin in remarks in the Notebooks that bear the clear mark both of Tolstoy&rsquo\;s influence and of the profound experiences that Wittgenstein had just been through at the Russian front. My aim in this talk is to see how looking at them in the light of the context in which they were written illuminates them and affects our interpretation of them.
This lecture is organized by the Centre for the History of Philosophy and Continental Philosophy (HICO) at Ghent University\, Belgium. \;
\nFor more info\, see the link below: \;
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