[lit-ideas] Re: The Life and Death of Wittgenstein
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:48:24 EDT
In a message dated 5/15/2009 12:23:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Donal
Prof Of Gravedigging
Dept of Old Wives Tales
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Thinking of it, it's odd that Socrates said that life is for the dying
when he spent most of his life in the art of giving birth (maieutic).
If you think of it, the strict equivalent of 'to die' (a pseudo-verb, as I
call it), is 'to be born' or as I prefer 'to be conceived'.
Surely one can choose where to die, but it's harder to choose where to be
born or even where to be conceived. To paraphrase Wittgenstein:
"Being conceived is not an event of life. We do not live to experience to
be conceived"
JLS
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