title: THE “WATERWHEEL” OF GUILT: THE TAUTOLOGY OF CONSCIENCE IN WITTGENSTEIN’S NOTES
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metadata.value: CHERNAVIN, GEORGY
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-01-27T12:57:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-01-27T12:57:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: CHERNAVIN G. THE “WATERWHEEL” OF GUILT: THE TAUTOLOGY OF CONSCIENCE IN WITTGENSTEIN’S NOTES. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2022, vol. 11 issue 2, pp. 544–557.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2022-11-2-544-557
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38909
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The implicit conception of conscience from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notes from 1929 is brought into
  comparison with the theory of conscience as a paradoxical identity of guilt and innocence by Philip
  Konrad Marheineke (which served as a pattern for Kierkegaardian concept of “despair”) and of conscience
  as a (grammatical and temporal) redoubling by Vladimir Jankélévitch. Wittgensteinian views
  on conscience and feeling of guilt tend to Marheineke-Kierkegaard’s model (the guilt hides in innocence
  and vice versa) and to Jankélévitch’s model (the wrongdoing from the past makes us regret the
  innocence which preceded it in a far remote past). I explore these tautological models of conscience
  using the example of Wittgensteinian metaphor of “waterwheel”: of an engineering failure producing
  a constant sentiment of guilt. Austrian philosopher describes his “incapacity to think” as a source
  of background, freely floating guilt. “Uselessness” and “mediocrity” or as he puts it “groundlessness
  of your own existence” altogether with “incapacity to think” — those are the self-accusations of the
  thinker. This torturing state he at the same time considers to be the source of his own philosophical
  productivity. Would a conscience be possible which would be free of this tautological structure and of
  this endless “rumination” of the petty guilt? The article proposes a hypothesis how one could break the
  tautological circle of an idling scrupulous conscience.
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metadata.value: The article was prepared within the framework of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research research
  project No. 18-011-00582 “The Late Wittgenstein Method: Reduction (Devaluation) of Traditional
  Problems of Metaphysics to a Philosophical Puzzle”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology;Volume 11; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: guilt
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Wittgenstein
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kierkegaard
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Marheineke
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conscience
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tautology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Jankélévitch
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: THE “WATERWHEEL” OF GUILT: THE TAUTOLOGY OF CONSCIENCE IN WITTGENSTEIN’S NOTES
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metadata.value: Article
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