Certainty and Culture. Anthropological findings about certainty

Abstract

The notion of Vital Certainty presented in Wittgenstein's On Certainty leads us to an interesting question: Are cultures always articulated upon unquestionable "principles"? This question, along with the question about the implications of the concept of Vital Certainty in the cultural analysis, will be discussed in this paper following the most essential Wittgensteinian assumptions in works like On Certainty. Although Wittgenstein does not speak about a theory of culture, he implicitly gives elements to constructing such a theory based on epistemological criteria.