Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics by Mikel Burley

Author:Mikel Burley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350050235
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2018-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Silence speaks: Three glances at the 2013 Gifford Lectures

At first glance, Rowan Williams’ Gifford Lectures seemed uncannily close to my own Stanton Lectures. Looking at the first chapter alone, the issues and reference points touched on include: the extraordinariness of ordinary speech, the limitations of a descriptive model for religious discourse, Aquinas, pushing everyday modes of causal explanation to the point at which we are compelled to change linguistic gear, Wittgenstein, analogical uses of words, Cavell, difficulties of reality, conversational exchanges, riddles, revelation, Kenny, objects understood as informed matter dependent on pure activity, excessive or projective speech, the intellect being ordered to what it cannot know, and so apparently endlessly on.

A second glance suggested, however, that these shared elements were in fact being organized or ordered towards an end that might be the exact opposite of the one to which my book attempted to direct them. To be sure, Williams begins by rejecting the suggestion that we should

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