The Tower of Babel and D. Z. Phillips' Concept of Prayer

Faith in the Flybottle
31/03/2020 32 min Temporada 1 Episodio 2

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What is prayer? What does it mean for someone to pray? In this episode, I examine the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, a remark by the early Wittgenstein on prayer, and the first book in the tradition of Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion, the Concept of Prayer by D. Z. Phillips (1934-2006). Find out why Wittgenstein thought prayer is thinking about the meaning of life, how this changed, and why Phillips thought philosophy of religion was harder than building the Tower of Babel.

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