The Paradox Box: Guidebook

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The Paradox Box  guidebook, for both instructors and the students themselves, explores the philosophical bases behind the concepts introduced in the novel and includes excerpts of works by Freud, Schopenhauer, Hume, James, Wittgenstein, and others to enable students to understand the issues that surrounded Wittgenstein as he worked to clarify his ideas about logic and language. It also provides in-depth discussion questions about both the readings and the novel. It is an essential component to this creative and innovative philosophy curriculum. The Paradox Box  guidebook explores the philosophical bases behind the concepts introduced in the novel and includes excerpts of original works by such philosophers, logicians, and writers as Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Hume, John Maynard Keynes, Gottlob Frege, Otto Weininger, William James, G.E. Moore, and even Virginia Woolf. There are also two selections from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , which became the foundation of the philosophical movement known as logical positivism…