[lit-ideas] Re: Wittgenstein's Unpublications
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:34:35 -0330
But didn't Witters rekant (sorry) his aristocratic heritage for the sake of
being able to engage in the enterprise of public reason? (We won't talk about
the money, of course - it being a tawdry subject and all.)
Anther query: What objections could W possibly have to Toulmin's piggybacking
on his ideas? Two of Toulmin's texts remain essential readings for students of
argumentation. (Habermas himself says so. You got a problem with dat?)
Walter O
Quoting Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx:
> My last post today!
>
> I think it was Witters (as J. L. Austin loved to call Ludwig Wittgenstein,
> the Austrian aristocrat*) who said that he regretted that Toulmin would use
> his ideas.
>
> You see, Toulmin wrote his PhD or DPhil (I forget) on the place of reason
> in ethics, drawing on or from Witters's ideas in the seminars.
>
> I think, with quoting from (St.) Augustine, Witters would say that if you
> SPEAK, you 'publish'. The word 'publish' means just that, etymologically.
> And of course, it's only the etymon that matters (what the Greeks not in
> vain called 'the true').
>
> When Grandy/Warner were compiling their festschrift for Grice (P. G. R. I.
> C. E., Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends
> [since Clarendon Press had suggested that a book with a specific reference
> to this or that philosopher SELLS less than a book with a more general
> title), they ended up with two pages (as I recall): one of Grice's
> 'publications' (from "Mind" 1941 onwards); the other, one of his
> "unpublications", the
> number of which, Grice granted, by far exceeded that of his publications.
>
> This may relate to Socrates's unwritten doctrines.
>
> Or not!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Speranza
>
> ----
>
> *Thanks to Karl Wittgenstein, the Wittgensteins became the second
> wealthiest family in Austria-Hungary, behind only the Rothschilds. As a
> result of
> his decision in 1898 to invest substantially overseas, particularly in the
> Netherlands, Switzerland and the US, the family was to an extent shielded
> from the hyperinflation that hit Austria in 1922. Their wealth did still
> diminish due to post-1918 hyperinflation and the Great Depression, although
>
> even as late as 1938 they owned 13 mansions in Vienna alone.
>
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