Analytical Philosophy: Its aim and objectives

The present age is the age of science and technology. Similarly modern philosophy is known as “Analytical Philosophy” Analytical Philosophy is a new trend in contemporary western philosophy. This movement was started mainly in England & America from the beginning of the twentieth Century. G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein were the pioneer of the movement. After the Greek Period, the trend of philosophy could be broadly classified into three ages. 1) Middle Age philosophy is …

…which seeks to be rigorous and careful, which, at times make use of ideas and techniques from logic and which is also aware of what is happening in contemporary science. It is, in particular, alert linguistic consideration, not because of an interest in language for its own shake, but because is it through language that we grasp the concept we use, and it is by means of language that we express our belief and assumptions.