ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author talks about the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts of John Wisdom. He was born in 1904, the son of a clergyman. He received his B.A. from Cambridge University in 1924, and in 1952 became professor of philosophy at Cambridge. His early publications are avowedly the work of one of Wittgenstein's students, and occasionally the world at large gleaned Wittgenstein's views from Wisdom's articles, because Wisdom always took care to give due credit. For all that, Wisdom's originality is unquestioned and equally notable in his style and in his ideas. Among his publications, two volumes of collected articles are particularly noteworthy: Other Minds and Philosophy and Psycho-Analysis. From his books, the author talks about the existence of God is not an experimental issue in the way it was, Belief in gods is not merely a matter of expectation of a world to come and so on.