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Item The Fideism of the Wittgensteinians(Metalogicon, 2001) Bottone, AngeloAmong the various English philosophical currents that have dealt with religion, “Wittgensteinian fideists” have, more than anyone else, stressed the relativity of beliefs and their relation to the forms of life in which they originate. The term “Wittgensteinian fideism” belongs to Kai Nielsen, who attributed a fideist position to pupils or followers of Wittgenstein, philosophers such as Winch, Hughes, Malcolm, Cavell, Phillips, and later to Wittgenstein himself.1 What these thinkers have in common is the idea that theological discourse is sui generis and therefore cannot be understood and judged in terms other than its own; the truth and meaning of a religious world view should not be understood on the basis of the object that it wishes to represent but only on the basis of the tradition or the community within which the view has emerged and in which it has its function. In the present article, we shall examine the positions of Norman Malcolm and D. Z. Phillips, the most representative of this line of thought, as well as Kay Nielsen’s critique of their positions and the position of Yong Huang.Item The Vanishing Mediator and Linguistic Hospitality(Department of Philosophy of the University of Santo Tomas (UST), 2010) Bottone, AngeloIn We, the People of Europe? Balibar argues for a Europe as the interpreter of the world, a ‘vanishing mediator’ translating languages and cultures. Ricoeur in his last works has considered translation as a paradigm of the attitude towards the other, holding the view that the ethical purposes relating to linguistic hospitality are the model for any kind of hospitality. I intend to contrast Balibar’s vanishing mediator with Ricoeur’s concept of linguistic hospitality.