----- Original Message ----- From: "joanna bujes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:12 PM Subject: [PEN-L:34577] Re: Re: Re: Re: doublethink
> Forget Russell, read Wittgenstein. "The Philosophical Investigations" is a > real treat. > > What I love about Wittgenstein is that he writes about very difficult > things in very simple language....as opposed to most philosophers, who > write about very simple things in very impenetrable language. At the same > time, I warn newcomers that his thought is quite dense...so that it is > impossible for me to read more than, say, five pages of the Investigations > at one sitting. But that should still get you through the book in about a year. > > Trust me; he _is_ the only worthwhile philosopher I've encountered in the > twentieth century. > > Joanna =============== I got Wittgenstein and Whiskers together in one seminar with a dash of Nietzsche and Freud. Still haven't recovered. :-) I'll leave it to Justin to defend the opposing claim regarding other worthwhile 20th century philosophers...... Ian
