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Wittgenstein is the guy who got fired as a schoolteacher for violence against his students, and threatened a philosopher with violence when he was losing an arg
by xenophanes 14y ago
Wittgenstein is the guy who got fired as a schoolteacher for violence against his students, and threatened a philosopher with violence when he was losing an argument.
To be thought of merely as an eccentric is lucky for him, given his history. He was a thug.
- neilk 14y agoOh, I would not want Wittgenstein teaching any child of mine. He is one of the people who deserves to be called an Asperger's sufferer. He could be roused to fury if something wasn't up to his exacting intellectual standards. When he was an architect he once had workmen raise a ceiling by 30 mm (a little more than an inch) so the dimensions of the room could be perfect. There's something about his life, which I think many on this board could identify with -- he was at once extremely proud of his mind, but also aware that he was a victim of his own relentless obsessions. This is why it's almost heroic how, through rigorous, dedicated adherence to philosophizing, he was able to show that philosophizing was not everything.
- jasomill 14y ago"A philosopher is a man who has to cure many intellectual diseases in himself before he can arrive at the notions of common sense." (LW, 1944)