Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Philosophy and Politics
From: Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas)
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:38:31 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

PHILOSOPHY ACCORDING TO WITTGENSTEIN
 
  MEDICAL TECHNIQUE, a therapy, a method of healing
  UEBERSICHT, a clear view of the world, over all understanding
 
The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of
an illness. PI $255.
 
There is not a philosophical method,, though there are indeed
methods, like different therapies. PI $133.
Philosophy is a medicine which is sometimes curative and sometimes
preventive.
 
Philosophical questions, when you boil them down to what they
really amount to, change their aspect entirely. What evaporates is
what the intellect cannot take. MS 159, 3b.
 
Philosophical investigations: conceptual investigations. The
essencial thing about metaphysics: it obliterates the distinction
between factual and conceptual investigations.
 
Philosophy, in its therapeutic attention to logical forms it must
be factual, empirical ($108-9,116-17,124-27;GI 51-52)
 
The task of philosophy is not to create a new, ideal language, but
to clarify the use of our language...its aim is to remove
particular misunderstandings; not to produce a real understanding
for the first time. PG 115.
 
Philosophy is a tool which is useful only against philosophers and
against the philosopher in use. MS 219,11
 
Philosophy is embodied not in propositions but in a language.
 
Philosophy has a destructive role, all that philosophy can do is to
destroy idols. And that means not to make new ones - say out of
"the absence of idols". MS 213,413.
 
A main souce of our failure to understand is that we do not command
a clear view of the use of our words. Our grammar is lacking in
perspicuity....PI 42.
 
We want to establish an order in our knowledge of the use of
language...aiming at complete clarity. PI $132-3.
 
It is the task of philosophy to achieve an order, an order which
gives complete clarity.
 
We may not advance any kind of theory. There must not be anything
hypothetical in our considerations. We must do away with all
expalanations, and the description alone must take its space. PI
$109.
 
It is not that a new building has to be erected, or that a new
bridge has to be built, but that the geography, as it now is, has
to be judged. We certainly see bits of the concepts, but don't
clearly see that declivities by which one passes into others. RFM
157.
 
Der Begriff der uebersichtlichen Darstellung is fuer uns von
grundlegender Bedeutung. Er bezieichnet unsere Darstellungsform,
die Art wie wir die Dinge sehen.
Diese uebersichtliche Darstellung vermittelt das Verstaendnis,
welches eben darin besteht, dass wir die "Zusammenhaenge sehen".
Daher die Wichtigkeit des Findens von Zwischeng liedern.
(connections, itermediate-links) RFGB 9
(read further: "formalen Zusammen hangs = formal connections) see
how he ties to set up connections with ghost, shade, soul, spirit)
 
We must distinguish the concepts from each other one by one..It is
helpful to note both differences and similarities. Man 167.
 
The matter cannot be clarified by raging against your words, but by
trying to turn your attention away from the use of the words (Man
228, $44; cp $$120,144). It is never right to say simply: 'no, that
is false, it must be abandoned'. (man 112, 197; cp $$423-24;Z 460)
 
By being educated in a technique, (a technique has a physiognomy),
we are also educated to have a way of looking at the matter which
is just firmly rooted as that technique. RFM 124.
 
I want to say: an education quite different from ours might also be
the foundation for quite different concepts. For here life would
run on differently.- What interests us would not interest
them...Z387-88
 
Philosoph isn't anything except philosophical problems, the
particular individual worries that we call "philosophical
problems:"
 
What has to be overcome is not a difficulty of understanding but of
the will. PI 59-60.
 
Philosophy has close affinity to Politics. (Ibn Rushd's Commentary
on Plato's Republic)
 
      
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