andie nachgeborenen
*
W's philosophy actually calls out for following up
with such investigation. If you want to go beyond
philosophy, you have to go _somewhere_ -- maybe to
political economy and political sociology, like Marx,
maybe to Ideologiekrit
--- Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All this is rather superficial, however. I think
> Ernest Gellner nailed the
> essentially conservative nature of Wittgenstein's
> philosophy.
Oh, agreed. W thought that philosophy done right
"leaves everything as it is." That is a quote or at
lea
All this is rather superficial, however. I think Ernest Gellner nailed the
essentially conservative nature of Wittgenstein's philosophy.
Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy is hardly a notch above Carnap's
dismissal of metaphysics as "bad poetry" or Neurath's
metaphysicophobia. The notio
The last thing W wanted ro be was a major philosopher.
The point of his whole later work was to "shew (Brit
sp.) the fly the way out of the fly bottle," and
reveal that philosophy was a sort of mistake. Of
course, if he felt that way he might just have stopped
doing philosophy and done something e
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/Wittgenstein.htm
"Rhees and Monk record the many sympathetic remarks Wittgenstein made about
Marxism, about workers and about revolutionary activity. While these are not
in themselves models of 'orthodoxy', they reveal how close Wittgenstein came
to adoptin
Jim Farmelant
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/Wittgenstein.htm
"However, Philosophers still in the grip of traditional ways of thinking
often see this approach to theory as a dereliction of duty; according to
them, Philosophy should form part of a general attempt to understand the
world
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/Wittgenstein.htm
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