Abstract

This book outlines Wittgenstein’s criticisms of traditional philosophy and shows the impact of Wittgenstein’s therapeutic approach to philosophy on theologian Stanley Hauerwas’s approach to Christian ethics, on the one hand, and argues that Hauerwas’s approach to ethics overcomes aporias, contradictions, central to Wittgenstein’s philosophical method, on the other. Given the ambition of the project, this book ought to be of interest both to theologians and philosophers interested in the complex and interesting authorships of both Wittgenstein and Hauerwas.