[Wittrs] Re: Free Will and Wittgenstein
- From: Anna Boncompagni <anna.boncompagni@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:51:03 +0100
Hello,
I don't remember the remarks that ou are referring to, anyway my opinion is
that he thought that believing in free will might indeed be very important
in the life of people (this is something he had in common with William
James), but that philosophical discussions about what free will really is,
if it exists or not, if it is the will or the action that has to be free in
order to have freedom... all these discussions are quite pointless.
Regards
Anna
2011/4/17 John Phillip DeMouy <jpdemouy@xxxxxxxxx>
> The idea that it is properly "Wittgensteinian" to assume a dismissive
> attitude toward discussions of "free will" and related topics, to treat
> these issues as having no relevance to anyone, is belied by
> Wittgenstein's own reflections of the issues of predestination and
> Calvinism as recorded in Culture & Value. He believed these issues
> could have great importance in an individual's life and upbringing.
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> Contrast with the discussion of "Battle-cries" of idealists and Realists
> as recorded in Zettel, in which the upbringing of a child raised by
> parents with one or the other view is shown to make little difference.
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> I'm just sayin'...
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