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A Companion to Wittgenstein on EducationOn “The Temptation to Attack Common Sense”

A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education: On “The Temptation to Attack Common Sense” [In The Blue Book (BB, pp. 58–59), WittgensteinWittgenstein defends common sense as a guide for our thinking and as a relief from mental discomfort. It might stand as a powerful educational ideal. Wittgensteinian common sense is related to the practicePractice of rule-following. While theories, practicesPractice and even norms evolve or change, the mastering of rule-following is what keeps us within the community and within the realm of reason, that is, within common sense. Stepping outside amounts to mental discomfort. There is, however, a downside: His attachment to ordinary languageOrdinary language “as it is” might be considered a conservativeConservative by-product of this argument. Yet such an implication can be avoided. Common sense is a promising educationalEducation ideal—if only we do not take WittgensteinWittgenstein too literally. It is an ideal that, in education today, is currently under attack from various sources.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Companion to Wittgenstein on EducationOn “The Temptation to Attack Common Sense”

Editors: Peters, Michael A.; Stickney, Jeff
Gasparatou, Renia
A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education — May 4, 2017
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Springer Singapore
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© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
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978-981-10-3134-2
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275 –286
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10.1007/978-981-10-3136-6_18
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[In The Blue Book (BB, pp. 58–59), WittgensteinWittgenstein defends common sense as a guide for our thinking and as a relief from mental discomfort. It might stand as a powerful educational ideal. Wittgensteinian common sense is related to the practicePractice of rule-following. While theories, practicesPractice and even norms evolve or change, the mastering of rule-following is what keeps us within the community and within the realm of reason, that is, within common sense. Stepping outside amounts to mental discomfort. There is, however, a downside: His attachment to ordinary languageOrdinary language “as it is” might be considered a conservativeConservative by-product of this argument. Yet such an implication can be avoided. Common sense is a promising educationalEducation ideal—if only we do not take WittgensteinWittgenstein too literally. It is an ideal that, in education today, is currently under attack from various sources.]

Published: May 4, 2017

Keywords: Common sense; Education; Rule-following; Science; Verificationism; Wittgenstein

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