Bryan KamInteresting #Wittgenstein was reading #James and #Tolstoy. Former is a classic pragmatist, latter kind of is too, has #Taoist leanings #philosophy https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/09/ludwig-wittgenstein-a-mind-on-fire
Also I think #Tolstoy was reading #Thackeray when he was fighting in the Crimean War? And #Shklovsky was writing literary criticism on the other front from #Wittgenstein. Could be fun to write something on "What we read while fighting." Or even "What pacifists read at war." Not that they all necessarily became pacifists. Just thinking aloud...
Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻@bryankam wow... he's always surprising me. He's certainly not one to be accused of ignorance... very impressive.
@apodoxus Yeah, I'm quite impressed with him too, though that article is worth a read. Some accounts make him out to be quite saintly, others kind of a hypnotic ascetic weirdo, still others as not having behaved all that well. Wasn't there something about a fire poker? Seem to recall Martin Seligman wasn't too keen on him either? And would he have been as versatile without Ramsey's influence?
@bryankam fire poker? I don't know anything about that... He may not be so ignorant but I am on him :) I'm procrastinating W for now, cos I know at some point I'll do a deep dive.
@apodoxus An argument between #Wittgenstein and #Popper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein%27s_Poker I'm only vaguely aware of it! I too am sorta procrastinating on him. I've had to look at bits of the Tractatus (which I wanna read in conjunction with Spinoza's Tractatus) and the PI but nothing sustained yet...