[lit-ideas] Re: Locating Friere's foot
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- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:01:42 +0200
On 9-Aug-09, at 6:27 AM, Mike Geary wrote:
[Robert Paul]:
Wittgenstein wrote in the Investigations that '[p]hilosophical
problems arise when language goes on holiday.'
Hmmm. I would have said: "Language happens when philosophy goes on
holiday." But that's just me.
The two are not mutually exclusive. And the first does not imply that
'taking language on a holiday' is NECESSARILY a bad thing. Sometimes
one - or some (i.e., a colloquium) - may wish to GENERATE or EXERCISE
philosophical 'problems. An important thing here is that one - or the
colloquium - is AWARE that s/he - or the larger group - is doing so.
Am I wrong in thinking that the following quotation is (at least) not
unrelated (and even, perhaps, an illustration of the point I am trying
to make)?
“I sit with a philosopher in a garden; he says again and again, ‘I
know that that is a tree,’ pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone
else comes by and hears this, and I tell him, ‘This fellow isn’t
insane; we’re only doing philosophy.'" [from L. Wittgenstein, ON
CERTAINTY]
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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