[lit-ideas] Re: Tittles--a change of title
- From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:44:10 +0700
I had written:
"Wittgenstein wants to move us from disguised nonsense to patent
nonsense. That is, there is something important that comes about
because we turn from thinking to looking."
to which John McCreery wrote:
"Could you please elaborate a bit. Why is this patent nonsense? "
Sorry, I wasn't clear. It isn't that any particular thing is patent
nonsense but rather my point was that Wittgenstein is himself
interested in moving people from disguised to patent nonsense. The
relevant text from PI:
§464. My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised
nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
My point was that Wittgenstein sees something important in awareness,
in contrast to reflection, and wants to lead the reader towards
greater awareness.
John again:
"Here I am truly confused. Are we implying that what psychologists do
is not purposive? Different purposes, perhaps. But surely not devoid
of purpose."
Again, I wasn't clear enough. My point was not that other disciplines
don't have purposiveness but rather that philosophy has its own kind.
Wittgenstein gives examples for a purpose, a purpose that could be
called philosophical. This philosophical purpose of giving examples
would then be distinguished from the purpose of giving examples in
psychology or anthropology. In short, this purposiveness that
characterizes the giving of philosophical examples would be an
important part of distinguishing the purposiveness at work in
psychology or anthropology.
One can, for example, imagine the different purposes for employing the
example of the incest taboo depending on whether one was doing
philosophy, psychology, or anthropology.
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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