The majority of posts in this forum give ample examples.Wittgenstein thought that human beings have an irresistible urge to philosophise but when we give in to this urge we often lose sight of the nature of familiar concepts and so fall into error and confusion.
2. The rejection of the private mind, hidden from public view. — Banno
Are Witgensteinian language games essentially about ambiguity? — TheMadFool
The majority of posts in this forum give ample examples. — Banno
One area of criticism is that there is a limit to language in terms of metaphysics. He still held onto this idea in his later philosophy. I think this is and was a mistake. — Sam26
He had some important points to make, but his therapeutic project failed; people still do the kind of philosophy that Wittgensteinian therapy was supposed to "cure." — Pneumenon
I don't read him like that. I never thought he was commanding people what they're allowed to do. — jacksonsprat22
Certainly not commanding, but if he was able to do what he said he wanted to do, then you would no longer want to do philosophy after reading him. — Pneumenon
PROBLEM: Deep controversy is already present in discourse before the philosopher arrives on the scene. Religion makes metaphysiical claims, and political discourse involves contested concepts, such as 'person' and 'marriage,' — Phil Devine
Well, the cure is one that must be self-administered. Many are loathe to be cured. They're like anti-vaxxers in that respect. — Ciceronianus the White
But if everybody is just gonna ignore him, then it doesn't help to say that. And in that respect, his therapeutic project has failed. — Pneumenon
The sheer joy of proving that I am the only observer in the world, for example. Or that everything had a beginign, or that it didn't. That you can't get something for nothing, or that you can. Or even that emotions are concepts.Most of us are content--even glad--to remain in the fly-bottle. — Ciceronianus the White
One area of criticism is that there is a limit to language in terms of metaphysics. He still held onto this idea in his later philosophy. I think this is and was a mistake. — Sam26
The key idea in the later Wittgenstein is that our language is all right as it is; we do not need an ideal language. Careful attention to real world language will dissolve (not solve) philosophical problems; the fly will be out of the fly bottle and we will see the world rightly. PROBLEM: Deep controversy is already present in discourse before the philosopher arrives on the scene. Religion makes metaphysiical claims, and political discourse involves contested concepts, such as 'person' and 'marriage,' — Phil Devine
That's like saying medicine's therapeutic project failed because there are still sick people. — Banno
Interesting. I see him as advocating silence on metaphysical issues, and as this as one of his views that did not change over the course of his life. — Banno
Late Wittgenstein remains one of the most influential philosophical contributions of modern times. — h060tu
He's the most important philosopher of the 20th Century. — jacksonsprat22
I think Werner Heisenberg was more important than Wittgenstein. — h060tu
Heisenberg would not call himself a philosopher. Most know him as a physicist. — jacksonsprat22
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