I would love to read a 'Wittgenstein for Idiots". Know what I mean? I run into him as an important influence on a lot of people -- but I am not willing to spend a year reading something dense on him. Seems like there is no popular introduction.
I would love to read a 'Wittgenstein for Idiots". Know what I mean? I run into him as an important influence on a lot of people -- but I am not willing to spend a year reading something dense on him. Seems like there is no popular introduction.
Wittgenstein's language is pretty transparent in Philosophical Investigations. I think the most helpful thing is to read Norman Malcolm's short bio and then think about why Wittgenstein was so passionate about the thoughts he put there, in the Investigations.
When he was young he wrote the Tractatus in an Italian POW camp. He sent it off to Russell and then decided he had completed philosophy, and so went off to do other practical things. Very important to me is that he spent time teaching elementary school. He came to see his earlier views which had become quite fashionable were profoundly wrong. He took what life had taught him and tried to repair or replace his earlier views.
The concept of 'language game' by itself is worth the effort needed to dig into the Investigations.
I would love to read a 'Wittgenstein for Idiots". Know what I mean? I run into him as an important influence on a lot of people -- but I am not willing to spend a year reading something dense on him. Seems like there is no popular introduction.
Wittgenstein's language is pretty transparent in Philosophical Investigations. I think the most helpful thing is to read Norman Malcolm's short bio and then think about why Wittgenstein was so passionate about the thoughts he put there, in the Investigations.
When he was young he wrote the Tractatus in an Italian POW camp. He sent it off to Russell and then decided he had completed philosophy, and so went off to do other practical things. Very important to me is that he spent time teaching elementary school. He came to see his earlier views which had become quite fashionable were profoundly wrong. He took what life had taught him and tried to repair or replace his earlier views.
The concept of 'language game' by itself is worth the effort needed to dig into the Investigations.