/lit/ - Literature

>>16113823
>Wittgenstein has never done a single thing for you. Nothing.
gigabased of him

>"In the original drafts of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he [Wittgenstein] had insisted on putting illustrations of naked women with very large breasts and cat ears which he had drawn himself at the start of each section. He said it reflected "the ethos of our age" and was a statement on how un-sexed all previous philosophic endeavors had been. Russell and I urged him against it, citing how it would scandalize his academic career and stood no chance of being published. He grew outraged, spouting, "I'll publish the damned thing myself! I've created art, do you eunuchs understand? Art! I am prouder of the tits on page 56 than I am of the whole of the logic that follows!" We eventually comprised on removing the illustrations from the editions of the Tractatus that would be sent to the publishers and giving the editions with the illustrations a small, private run to be distributed amongst Wittgenstein's closest acquaintances. My wife was displeased when she discovered my copy of the illustrated Tractatus and demanded I throw it out. I was loath to part from it because, it must be admitted, those cat-eared females of Wittgenstein's were indeed a work of art." -Norman Malcolm, in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1966), p. 31

>"It is no secret that he [Wittgenstein] was enamored with animals, but when the zoo installed an orangutan exhibit he became startling obsessed with the creature. He visited the exhibit often and would stand for hours, sometimes chattering with and tossing peanuts from the little packs my wife had given him at the beast; at other times standing silent as the grave, with a swami's meditative gravity to his unvarried glare as he watched the orangutan lope about in the cage. One time during such a reverie I approached him and asked him what it was he found so fascinating about the ghastly primate. He replied, "The whole of my philosophy is summarized in this orangutan." I was stunned and asked him to elaborate. He answered, "No." Two weeks later he and a gypsy import he had apparently hired for a get-away driver were arrested for attempting break the orangutan out of the zoo. My wife had to go down to the station to pay his bail." -Norman Malcolm, in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1966), p. 88

>he thinks any given language game is adequate to reality
>he thinks adequacy is identity

>>12288493
>It's defined quite precisely actually

Suppose two people were left on earth, all human writings had disappeared as well, and the two people disagreed over the "precise" definition. How do you they determine who is right?

>>12270855
>sozusagen

>>10975582

>>9899869
>>tfw your own father pre-emptively invades you

DUDE COLOURS SHAPES AND NUMBERS LMAO

>>9301919
Lol, so Hegel with his spooky spirit reasonpowers is a realist but Whitehead the radical empiricist and lover of science is a feelsman?

You know Hegel doesn't believe the world exists without a consciousness, right?

>Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must stay silent.

So is he basically saying that if you have a speech impairment or something then you shouldn't talk at all?

*blocks your path*

>>9223679

Hey guys, you're talking about me ? I heard you call my name - or maybe not. Did I ? Maybe you were talking about automatism, maybe you were talking about Wolfenstein. I should have a good reason to believe you talk about L. W. Is that a hand ? Why do you put your palm on your face ? Or maybe you don't.

>>9013402
but thats true u fuckin nerd

Because it is the essence of our human nature. There can be no private language. Intersubjectivity and discursivity are central aspects of the phenomenology of the human spirit.

>Shittgenstein

>>7052082
Wittgenstein would probably animorph into a lion and rip his throat out with his teeth.

>>6957949
>greatest creator of metaphors in all of literature

Shakespeare's similes are, in the ordinary sense, bad. So if they are all the same good - and I don't know whether they are or not - they must be a law to themselves.

>It's unknowable

>>6858973

attaboy

Who are the most mature and hardcore-tier philosophers?
If I could pick I would say Hegel, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida, Schopenhauer, and Adorno.
Who else should I buy?

i got high mere moments ago and ive come across ridic religious experience, so much so that ive adopted a ridiculous name and feel i must spread the word

maybe i am worth interrogating

How come so many of you dudes want to be writers? I rarely see fans of film wanting to make movies themselves.