mcandreb wrote:
Hi Selma,
Wittgenstein is behind Shotter. You need to get to know him. His life
must be appreciated in order to understand his writing.
[snip]
I don't think it hurt that Wittgenstein was a member of the
richest family in Austria.
I don't think it hurt that he got his PhD in a genuinely
human way: The professors at wherever it was [Oxford or
Cambridge...] decided W. needed a doctorate to teach there.
So they convened a meeting where W lectured to them for
a couple hours and then they granted him the degree.
(I know an artist who got an MA basically that way.)
Back to great wealth. Few persons get the opportunity to
play architect the way W did in his sisters' house:
When the house was almost done, he came on the
scene and had the roof raised a couple feet at great
expense. He took *two years* to find a foundry
that would cast the radiators to his satisfaction.
(There is a book on this: The Architecture
of Ludwig Wittgenstein", NYU Press.)
(I feel that, if I had had such opportunities I might
have done a bit better in life than I have done.... But
we can agree, nonetheless, that W. did make
good use of his good fortune, unlike, e.g., a Dubya.)
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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