id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8715 Quietism (philosophy) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1894 455 38 Quietism in philosophy sees the role of philosophy as broadly therapeutic or remedial.[citation needed] Quietist philosophers believe that philosophy has no positive thesis to contribute, but rather that its value is in defusing confusions in the linguistic and conceptual frameworks of other subjects, including non-quietist philosophy.[1] By re-formulating supposed problems in a way that makes the misguided reasoning from which they arise apparent, the quietist hopes to put an end to humanity's confusion, and help return to a state of intellectual quietude.[citation needed] Contemporary discussion of quietism can be traced back to Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose work greatly influenced the ordinary language philosophers. One of the early 'ordinary language' works, Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind, attempted to demonstrate that dualism arises from a failure to appreciate that mental vocabulary and physical vocabulary are simply different ways of describing one and the same thing, namely human behaviour. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8715.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8715.txt