![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, reason as a ground-giving activity cannot ground itself, but arises out of our situation in a world that is always already "there" before the question of grounds or reasons can arise in the first place. His general thesis is that, despite their differences, Wittgenstein and Heidegger both insist upon our radical finitude as human beings, and that there is an unsurpassable limit to the reasons we give as to why things are the way they are. Lee Braver's publication is the latest of these relatively rare efforts. However, perhaps because they came to represent opposing camps of professional philosophers, few have attempted to read them so as to bring them into productive dialogue. These remarks open a narrow pathway into a large field of investigation. Though they were aware of one another, each made only one recorded mention of the other, and these were made in passing. Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are the two most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. ![]()
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