The Oneness of the Will to be Right and the Divinity of 'The Good'
Subtitle: Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Philosophy of Religion
By: by Patrick Compston.
Publisher: typescript
Published: 1995
Place of publication: The University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Subjects: Philosophy
Genres: Philosophy of Religion
First sentence: The question that will concern us in what is to follow can be presented as follows: It  can be established that to offer a so-called  ‘proof ’ that ‘God is real’, is to advance a proposition that is not a candidate for truth or falsity, because that God is real, is a presupposition of the religious language game of monotheism.
Description: The central preoccupation of the Philosophy of Religion, for most philosophers, has for quite some time, been to determine whether or not belief in God is a delusion. It shall be argued that the question is not whether or not the proposition: 'God is real,' is true or false, but whether it is right to believe that it is true or false. This might seem a slight distinction, but once it is established that Wittgenstein is correct to point out that the proposition in question is not a scientific proposition, and that it has to be considered as a part of a different context of meaning, what he called a language game, then it becomes apparent, that logical and ethical argument, rather than scientific or psuedo-scientific evidence or  reasoning, hold the answer to the question of the ages, and that diatribes, on both sides of the argument, that miss this point, are fundamentally flawed, and irrelevant, beyond establishing, what is obvious to anyone with any philosophical training, that it is logically impossible to prove that God is not real, because the bare logical possibility always remains, and that even when language is taken on holiday, to that peculiar place, philosophers like to visit, where they imagine they have resolved this argument as if it were no different to discovering the existence of the yeti, they discover, that the arguments seldom favour one side or the other, more than slightly, and that there is no knockout blow to be had, except in the deluded fever of various bombasts working in a particular  field of propaganda, otherwise known as popular philosophy.
Notes: Thesis (M.Phil.) - University of Warwick, 1995.
Table of contents: title: Abbreviations; title: Prolegomenon
pagenum: 1; title: Part 1: The Higher  Will, The  “I”, Rules, And The World; title: Chapter 1: A Stranger in an Alien Land
pagenum: 7; title: 1.0
pagenum: 7; title: 1.01
pagenum: 8; title: 1.02
pagenum: 9; title: 1.03
pagenum: 11; title: 1.04
pagenum: 14; title: 1.05
pagenum: 15; title: 1.06
pagenum: 16; title: 1.07
pagenum: 19; title: Chapter 2 - Notes On Where I Am
pagenum: 21; title: 2.0
pagenum: 21; title: 2.01
pagenum: 22; title: 2.02
pagenum: 24; title: 2.03
pagenum: 26; title: 2.04
pagenum: 29; title: 2.05
pagenum: 39; title: 2.06
pagenum: 40; title: 2.07
pagenum: 44; title: 2.08
pagenum: 49; title: 2.09
pagenum: 50; title: Chapter 3 - ‘Singing an Aria’
pagenum: 52; title: 3.0
pagenum: 52; title: 3.01
pagenum: 53; title: 3.02
pagenum: 58; title: 3.03
pagenum: 63; title: 3.04
pagenum: 66; title: 3.05
pagenum: 68; title: 3.06
pagenum: 71; title: 3.07
pagenum: 77; title: Chapter 4 - The Will To Be Right
pagenum: 78; title: 4.0
pagenum: 78; title: 4.01
pagenum: 78; title: 4.02
pagenum: 79; title: 4.03
pagenum: 81; title: 4.04
pagenum: 82; title: 4.05
pagenum: 87; title: 4.06
pagenum: 93; title: 4.07
pagenum: 96; title: 4.08
pagenum: 98; title: 4.09
pagenum: 105; title: Chapter 5 - The Higher Will And The Philosophical Self
pagenum: 108; title: 5.0
pagenum: 108; title: 5.01
pagenum: 108; title: 5.02
pagenum: 111; title: 5.03
pagenum: 113; title: 5.04
pagenum: 116; title: 5.05
pagenum: 118; title: 5.06
pagenum: 122; title: 5.07
pagenum: 123; title: Part II - ‘The Voice Of God’ : Ineffable Sense, And  A Sense Of  The Ineffable; title: Chapter 6 - Ineffable Sense
pagenum: 128; title: 6.0
pagenum: 128; title: 6.01
pagenum: 130; title: 6.02
pagenum: 130; title: Chapter 7 - A Sense of the Ineffable
pagenum: 133; title: 7.0
pagenum: 133; title: 7.01
pagenum: 134; title: 7.02
pagenum: 137; title: 7.04
pagenum: 139; title: Chapter 8 - ‘The Voice Of God’
pagenum: 148; title: 8.0
pagenum: 148; title: 8.01
pagenum: 148; title: 8.02
pagenum: 156; title: 8.03
pagenum: 158; title: 8.04
pagenum: 161; title: Postscript
pagenum: 165; title: Notes; title: Bibliography