[lit-ideas] Re: Tittles--a change of title

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:43:58 +0900

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> §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.
>

Intriguing. But is there more going on in that "nonsense" than a bit of Zen
intended to expose the limits of thought?

>
>  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.


And....and... How do you see the purposes differing in accounts of the
incest taboo?

John
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