tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1218216555942263503..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Who Was Wittgenstein?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-46060032448235052512013-03-05T08:58:52.358-08:002013-03-05T08:58:52.358-08:00We as a society need to take a serious look at our...We as a society need to take a serious look at our elites. We have gone from the American "aristocracy" of birth and privilege to the new "aristocracy" of intelligence, as measured by standardized test scores. Stuart, you wrote a piece on Tom Wolfe's "Eunuchs of the Universe," and how so much of life is being influenced by quantitative savants. I find this all very curious.<br /><br />The author clearly points out what a threat Wittgenstein represents to those in elite university settings, especially the humanities. Perhaps Wittgenstein was humbled later in his career, and took an honest look at the premises the whole endeavor of theoretical philosophy is based on? It's more of the abstraction concern I have: that we have taken things to such levels of abstraction that they have become meaningless, untied to the real world. Read Aristotle's philosophy. Look at Euclid. It's all right there, accessible. Yet you read these tortured pieces by modern philosophers and it is nauseating. At the end of all this postmodern philosophical nonsense, what do we have? Nothing. <br /><br />Sam is spot on: wisdom and experience of others is worthless to the "smart people," in all their arrogance. The only problem is that these rationalists are running our most powerful institutions, or have influenced the people running those institutions. It's a bit icky... kind of like "1984."<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-72722477911145914002013-03-04T12:38:05.940-08:002013-03-04T12:38:05.940-08:00The wisdom of the masses is often preferentially d...The wisdom of the masses is often preferentially dismissed.<br /><br />Much like those who are certain they are smarter than us should be able to tell us what to do.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-3214347543598362612013-03-04T12:33:24.321-08:002013-03-04T12:33:24.321-08:00Great quotes... thanks.Great quotes... thanks.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-46972341983805062952013-03-04T09:27:21.228-08:002013-03-04T09:27:21.228-08:004 Wittgenstein quotes in my collection:
1. A ser...4 Wittgenstein quotes in my collection:<br /><br /><br />1. A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.<br /><br />2. ..what can be said at all can be said clearly<br /><br />3. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.<br /><br />4. The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11610216459168823816noreply@blogger.com