Status Updates From Wittgenstein: Das Handwerk ...

…And this is precisely the sort of explanation one wants in aesthetics: not one that establishes a cause for something's being beautiful, or for our regarding something as beautiful, but rather one that, by showing connections we had not thought of previously, shows what is beautiful about it - shows why, for example, a certain piece of music or a certain play, poem etc. is correctly regarded as a great work.

A morphology of magic rituals would,then,preserve what was deep about them, without either ridiculing or defending them. It would, in this way,have ‘the character of magic’. Similarly,Wittgenstein hoped,his new method of philosophy would preserve what was to be respected in the old metaphysical theories, and would itself have the character of metaphysics, without attempting the conjuring tricks of the Tractatus.

There is nothing more pleasant to me than when someone takes my thoughts out of my mouth, and then, so to speak, spreads them out in the open.

'I don't like taking walks through the fields of science alone', he added.

Brouwer rejected the idea that mathematics either could or needed to be grounded in logic. He further rejected the notion that consistency proofs were essential in mathematics. He also rejected the ‘objectivity’ of mathematics in the sense that it is usually understood – i.e. for Brouwer, there is no mind-independent mathematical reality about which mathematicians make discoveries.

Oh so he knew exactly what he was doing. Fuckthis guy.

Even in music, the art for which Wittgenstein had the greatest feeling,he showed above all a great understanding, rather than manifesting ‘wild life striving to erupt into the open’.When he played music with others, as he did frequently during this time in Vienna, his interest was in getting it right,in using his acutely sensitive ear to impose upon his fellow musicians an extraordinary exactitude of expression.

A guy can be both smart and stupid at the same time is what I am learning very cool

What an interesting, odd person. Came here to parse the Tractatus and now I'm just enjoying the biographical aspects of Wittgenstein more than the hard philosophy. Monk is a pretty great narrator too.

Il Bro non ci stava con la testa. Il Bro non ci stava con la testa. Il Bro non ci stava PER NULLA con la testa. È apprezzabile che avesse tutta una coerenza sua nel fare le cose ma IL BRO NON CI STAVA CON LA CAPA.