I thought Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations was pretty understandable, and I’ve never read his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (though I’ve seen snippets of it in articles about Wittgenstein’s philosophy—and the Tractatus is definitely on my to-do-eventually list). It’s been a few years since I’ve read the Investigations, so I should probably re-read it. But I’d definitely recommend it regardless of whether or not you’ve read any of Wittgenstein’s other writings, if only for his elucidation of ambiguities, as in the concept of “chairness”—fuzzy boundaries, family resemblances, and all that.
The sections I have marked as being the most informative about his concept of language games are 23 and 65–84 of the first part of the Investigations.
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And as to The Passion of What’s-His-Face, I just got around to seeing the video a couple weeks ago, myself, and I finally wrote a brief review of it on my LiveJournal here:
and crossposted it to the Atheism LiveJournal here:
I’m trying to raise awareness about the movie, being as how the godless lefties of the liberal media pretty much ignored it. ;-)
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Gorogh <gorogh@pallowrun.de> wrote:
Thanks for the clarification, rhino.
Definitely have to do some more reading... I have the "Philosophical
Investigations" lying around, too, but since the foreword says it somewhat
builds on the "Tractatus" I postponed reading it (even though I hear it is
easier). Would you nevertheless recommend reading it, not having finished
W.'s first work?
I have more questions, but I rather refer to a philosophy overview instead
of abusing you for one...
Thanks anyway!
Björn
p.s.: I've seen Passion o t Christ yesterday, and was surprised to find it
far less outrageous than I expected. The Jews and the Romans get away pretty
bad, of course, but still, I think it is a dangerously - memetically -
powerful movie. All due respect to the HOW it was made, but obviously forget
about the WHAT are its contents.
’Tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have known what it’s like
to have sex with someone besides yourself. —LenKen
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