Living with Rules: Wittgensteinian Reflections on Normativity

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Beran, Ondřej
Living with Rules: Wittgensteinian Reflections on Normativity.
Berlin: Peter Lang Edition, 2018. 232 s. ISBN 978-3-631-73592-3
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Keywords : rules * normativity * forms of life * attitude
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

The book originates from within a well-established philosophical tradition that considers human beings to be rule-following creatures. It suggests and discusses the idea that rules followed by (other) people provide a tool for understanding them. It discusses rule-following (or coping with rules) as a complicated and heterogeneous lived practice. The (non-philosophical) talk about “rules-governed practices” is characterised as, primarily, a way of giving an account of particular people’s characters and their lives and events in them. This focus on understanding others as following particular rules and variously coping with their claims attempts to specify the variety of “attitudes towards a soul” as discussed in the Wittgensteinian tradition, along the lines of which the project stands, though not exclusively.
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