Dadaism: Restrictivism as Militant Quietism. Blackburn (Ed.), Oxford dictionary of philosophy (p. Metaphysical quietism and functional explanation in the law. Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, Vol. Surveyability and surveyable representations. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Terence Irwin. For the purpose of dispelling the preconception that quietism confines us to silence in philosophy, the last part hints at different kinds of methodological approaches which are still entirely unproblematic even under a quietist constraint. This chapter then argues that quietism is best understood as the rejection of a specific kind of theory in philosophy, namely that kind of theory that aims to mimic the explanatory mode of the natural sciences. The chapter begins by unearthing the Wittgensteinian roots of quietism before separating four different contemporary uses of the term “quietism” in philosophy. It is, however, often unclear what quietism amounts to in detail. Wright, Truth and Objectivity, Harvard University Press, 1992) appropriated the term “quietism” to pejoratively denote the later Wittgenstein’s methodological outlook on philosophical practice as a kind of avoidance or rejection of philosophy. In the wake of developments towards the end of the twentieth century, philosophers (e.g. Quietism is a well-established, purely descriptive notion in the Christian tradition.
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