6/6/2023 0 Comments Wittgenstein geniusEpisodes from Wittgenstein's life have also become mythologised and I bought into that somewhat as well. Brother of Paul Wittgenstein (1887-1961). He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is also the author of Robert Oppenheimer and a two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell. The Tractatus seems to have something to say to me, and I was enamoured of it. Ray Monk is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, for which he was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. But many of those ideas by this stage had long since given over to much more doubt. She is a composite, created by overlaying four different photos of four different faces: three sisters, all middle-aged Austrian women, and their brother, the philosophical genius Ludwig Wittgenstein. I liked the ideas behind a mathematicians apology. I'd wanted to hold on to science as some kind of absolute truth, had thought when I was younger that a pursuit of phyical truths could be carried out in an ethically unambiguous way, ensuring that any such activity would by its nature be good. I thought that I understood the ethical nature of it, that in a way, though we might speak of the world, being in the world - our experience of being in the world, is more important, and indeed that experience delimits the language that we can have about our reality. The book elicited in me a sense of something wondrous. I remember sitting on a bench at Waverley station in Edinburgh on a bright spring morning and finishing it, after any number of times of having started it.
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