Ladbon, Karim-Pasha; (2002) The relation of the later philosophy of Wittgenstein to the philosophy of "Being and Time". Masters thesis (M.Phil), UCL (University College London).

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The thesis is about the relation of the later philosophy of Wittgenstein to the philosophy of Being and Time. After a brief discussion of the philosophy of Being and Time, I offer what I take to be a conventional view of the relation, according to which Being and Time falls foul of the later Wittgensteins critique of traditional philosophy-in particular by misconceiving the nature of the verb to be, which leads to its investigation of the meaning of Being. I then discuss Wittgensteins later philosophy in greater detail-first his Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough and then the Philosophical Investigations-in order to understand more clearly its aims and assumptions. On the light of this, I offer a more detailed interpretation of Being and Time-and in particular its key notion-Being-so as to show that not only does its philosophy not fall foul of the later Wittgensteins critique of traditional philosophy, but also that it shares a profound kinship with the later philosophy of Wittgenstein, such that it is a logical next step in philosophy for an adherent to Wittgensteins later philosophy.

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