remember that some years back we had a pi reading group, which later came back to tackle oc? how about another one?
im about to dive again into w's work and thought that maybe we could have some discussion, based on a common reading. what do you think? id propose the bb books as it is a good intro, but it could also be one of the remarks or maybe zettel.
the thing used to be done by chat, maybe a discord would work, tho scheduling is not without problems... or maybe a weekly thread every sunday to discuss a certain part? idk im just putting it out there to see if anyone wants to join.
an epub for pic related is on libgen and i'll be uploading a pdf too.
I remember when we did On Certainty, it's funny looking back at how unrefined all my thoughts+points were before I started studying philosophy at a university. Don't think I can stretch my schedule for this but I wish all the best for anyone involved.
Alexander Sullivan
W never said anything practical. It's just like "Uhh that would be a good point if you could express it in fake math notation". Who cares? What important topic (justice, ethics, love, power) needs such a creepy plastic treatment?
Luis Bell
Dumbest, most ignorant post post I've read in many moons
Benjamin White
that is not entirely false but that doesnt mean his work is out of value or relevance. in order to be able to be effective in practice a lot of things have to be in place first, and as there is no predefined system to establish this base, such system will always be arbitrary.
people like wittgenstein appear precisely when there are practical problems in a society that is facing an important change, when imperceptible misunderstandings begin to corrode social cohesion and chaos begins to appear, due to the incompatibility of the old conception and the new conditions. he came out of the fin de siecle vienna that was leaving behind the greatness of the empire and was seeing a whole world disappear. a whole lot of thinkers appeared in that context to face the new situation. not to mention the wars that succeeded.
it is not a coincidence that w's philosophy has been compared to buddhism or to chuangtzu. those two came in a similar moment of social rupture where a new conception was needed to face the change of conditions, in india the growing urbanization and in china the empire.
it is just as chuangtzu says "everyone knows the usefulness of the useful, but no one knows the usefulness of the useless." that might as well had been said by lw himself.
Jason White
I'd join if/once it focuses on PI and maybe OC
Also no discord for me, thread only
Wittgenstein is exact opposite of that, Wittgenstein is basically ur-continental
Parker Torres
it's mentioned in another post up right now, but id be interested in reading his book on the golden bough if a lot of other people have already read the notebooks/tractatuc/PI
Grayson Cooper
theres no such book, just a short text on it (that has been published in the form of a small book with the german text en face)
that one could actually be a good option to discuss, as it is short and rich in content for discussion, for is a direct polemic with an example of the common conception that wittgenstein was trying to question.
Adam Bailey
i just tried finding it and it looks like they are publishing a new edition in a few weeks. couldnt find it on libgen—you know another place?
