rekoj skrev:Ludwig Wittgenstein skrev:The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a
particular purpose. 7
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can
be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can
open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit
upon any child can open i t . / / . . . . and if it is hit upon, no effort at all
is necessary to open the d o o r / / i t / / . / / 9
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the real//actual//use of language//
. . . . with what is really said//; it can in the end only describe it.
For it cannot give it any foundation either.
It leaves everything as it is. 9
If one tried to advance t h e s e s in philosophy, it would never be possible
to debate them, because everyone would agree to them. 10
Learning philosophy is real1y recollecting. We remember that we really
used words in this way 10
(Our only task is to be just. That is, we must only point out and
resolve the injustices of philosophy, and not posit new parties - and
creeds.) 11
A philosophical problem always has the form: "I simply don't know
my way about." 11
The capacity for philosophy consists in the ability to receive a strong and
lasting impression from a grammatical fact. 12
/Teaching philosophy involves the same immense difficulty as instruction
in geography would have if a pupil brought with him a mass of
false and far too simple//and falsely simplified//ideas about the course
and connections of the routes of rivers//rivers//and mountain chains
//mountains//./ 12
I read " . . . . philosophers are no nearer the meaning of 'Reality' than
Plato got . . . . ". What a strange state of affairs. How strange in that
case that Plato could get that far at all] Or, that we were not able to
get farther! Was it because Plato was s o smart? 13 (sarcasm)
What kind of investigation are we carrying out? Am I investigating the
probability of cases that I give as examples, or am I investigating their
actuality? No, I'm just citing what is possible and am therefore giving
grammatical examples. 14
WE DON'T ENCOUNTER PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS AT ALL IN PRACTICAL
LIFE (AS WE DO, FOR EXAMPLE~ THOSE OF NATURAL SCIENCE). WE EN-
COUNTER THEM ONLY WHEN WE ARE GUIDED NOT BY PRACTICAL PURPOSE
IN FORMING OUR SENTENCES, BUT BY CERTAIN ANALOGIES WITHIN OUR
LANGUAGE. 17
Unrest in philosophy comes from philosophers looking at, seeing,
philosophy all wrong, i.e., cut up into (infinite) vertical strips, as it were,
rather than (finite) horizontal strips. This reordering of understanding
creates the g r e a t e s t difficulty. They want to grasp the infinite strip,
as it were, and complain that i t / / t h i s / / i s not possible piece by piece.
Of course it isn't, if by 'a piece' one understands an endless vertical
strip. But it is, if one sees a horizontal strip as a piece //a whole,
definite piece//. - But then we'll never get finished with our work! Of
course//certainly//not, because it doesn't have an end. 17
(Instead of turbulent conjectures and explanations, we want to give
quiet demonstrations statements// of linguistic fact s / /about linguistic
facts//.)//we want the quiet noting of linguistic facts.// 17
DIFFICULTY OF PHILOSOPHY NOT THE INTELLECTUAL DIFFICULTY OF THE
SCIENCES, BUT THE DIFFICULTY OF A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE. RESISTANCES
OF THE W I L L MUST BE OVERCOME. 3
Roughly speaking, in //according to the old conception - for instance
that of the (great) western philosophers - there have been two
kinds of problems in fields of knowledge //twofold kinds of problems
. . . . //: essential, great, universal, and inessential, quasi-accidental
problems. And against this stands our conception, that there is no such
thing as a g r e a t, essential problem in the sense of "problem" in the
field of knowledge. 3
Hemläxan blir att besvara:
Är detta filosofi, eller bara en text om filosofi?
Vad tror du W. själv skulle ansett om den saken?
En text om filosofi...eller en text i filosofi
Ja, eftersom ingen är intresserad av att svara, kan vi väl låta mr. W själv besvara frågan:
Ludwig Wittgenstein skrev:121. Man kunde mena: om filosofin talar om användningen av ordet "filosofi", så måste det finnas en filosofi av andra ordningen. Men så är det inte; det förhåller sig som med rättskrivningsläran som också har att göra med ordet "rättskrivningslära" utan att därvid vara av andra ordningen.
Alltså enligt honom är svaret att detta är filosofi, inte bara en text om filosofi. Men hur ska man få det att gå ihop med det han skriver om filosofi? Alltså uppfyller han verkligen de "krav" han själv ställer? Jag tror frågan blir lite lurig att besvara. Men jag uppskattar att han svarar som han svarar.