Wittgenstein renouncing the logical positivism that inspired his early career in philosophy:
“(107). The more narrowly we examine actual language, the sharper becomes the conflict between it and our
requirement. (For the crystalline purity of logic was, of course, not a result of investigation: it was a requirement.) The conflict becomes intolerable; the requirement is now in [...]
“The monotonous canon runs thus: the young man must begin with a knowledge of culture, not even with a knowledge of life, still less with life and the living of it. This knowledge of culture is forced into the young mind in the form of historical knowledge; which means that his head is [...]
I intend to actually contribute something of my own thoughts on this in the near future, but for now i would like to quote in full the conclusion of Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘the Ethics of Ambiguity’. this is a manifesto after my own heart:
“Is this kind of ethics individualistic or not? Yes, if one [...]
“Atheistic existentialism, which I represent, is more coherent. It states that if God does not exist, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, a being who exists before he can be defined by any concept, and that this being is man, or, as Heidegger says, human reality. What is meant here [...]
I am posting a portion of a brillant essay by the oxford philosopher j. r. lucas ( the whole essay can be read HERE). it accomplishes a lot, but for my own purposes i would like to emphasize how lucas argues that a mechanistic view of the world cannot adequately represent the ‘infinite variety [...]
“what am i giving you? i am giving you nothing. i am giving you things that god knows, everyone knows. they are famous in their deaths. this will be a memorial to them… i tell you and it evaporates. i don’t care – how could i care? i tell you how many people i have [...]
a repost from blogodoxy by Benedict Seraphim:
Faith and the Problems of Reason
As an academic—indeed, even a semi-professional one—my profession and discipline puts a lot of faith in reason. I teach (indeed am doing so this semester) a course on basic logic. In all my classes we examine arguments, and I tell students why [...]
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