
@conference {802,
	title = {Wittgenstein and Social Courage},
	booktitle = {35th International Wittgenstein Symposium },
	volume = {XX},
	year = {2012},
	month = {7 August},
	pages = {217-219},
	publisher = {Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society},
	organization = {Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society},
	address = {Kirchberg Austria},
	abstract = {Wittgenstein offers a method of engagement and participation that enables us to establish overlaps between the public and the private. One such overlap is social courage. The duty to help is not a matter of entitlement, but it is an obligation that comes from our sense of connection with others. Wittgenstein{\textquoteright}s method of language-games enables us to extend this sense of connection even to strangers because it a {\textquoteleft}socially reflective mode of learning{\textquoteright} through which we are better able to take the perspective of others. Obligations do not just come from a system of codified rules, but from the sense of agency we acquire as a result of reflective engagement in different practices. Wittgenstein does not advance any substantive thesis, but the critical nature of his method offers a framework for understanding social courage without leading to the antagonism between altruism and rationality},
	author = {Lumberto Mendoza}
}
