Kaplan and Wittgenstein: Atheism, Phenomenology and the use of language

What is it about?

A comparative analysis of the Jewish Reconstructionist theologian Mordechai Kaplan, and the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. I argue for a similarity in metaphysics between the two contemporaneous thinkers, who are in some ways both very reductionist, while also preserving the crucial importance of transcendence for human subjects to live meaningful lives.

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