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11411817 No.11411817 [Reply] [Original]

Why did he want to subvert the philosophical tradition by supposing it's steeped in misunderstanding?

>> No.11411903

How is philosophy not seeped into misunderstanding?

>> No.11411930

But it is.

>> No.11411947

>>11411817
because he was ignorant

>> No.11411949

>>11411817
What makes you think he wanted to?

>> No.11412029

>>11411949
I might have been too hard on him in saying there was intention, but it's ultimately what Investigations read like to me
>>11411903
On some level everything involving language carries misunderstanding, but it isn't the fundamental tenet of the use of philosophy.
Ideas can stem from a belief of misunderstanding as his did, but the Philosophical tradition in my mind is the cultivation of thought and understanding in many contexts, not a response to misunderstanding.
He wasn't just arguing that philosophy fails to communicate but that it is largely arises by failure in communication.

>> No.11412051

>>11411817
Because he was the product of a dying culture.

>> No.11412682

It's a projection of his own conflicted homosexuality nahmean

>> No.11412690

>>11411817
cuz it is

>> No.11412701

>>11412690
Why

>> No.11413282

>>11411817

because he could not figure out shit and the hard problems where driving him insane so he went in the opposite easier direction and said "all that shit is not practical so its meaningless" to protect his own intellect from anihilation.