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5 days ago · Still, Wittgenstein’s deeply private and agnostic Christianity sharply contrasts Bataille’s own atheological experience of the death of God. Where Bataille’s mysticism challenges rationality, Wittgenstein’s instead expresses the numinous world as such, shedding light on the dark night of Bataille and the specific character of ‘inner experience’.
3 days ago · The early Wittgenstein’s truth-conditional conception of sense in the light of his criticism of Frege. In M. Karlsson, Wittgenstein's footsteps (Vols. halshs- 01532039, pp. 1-10). Iceland: Reykjavik.
4 days ago · Wittgenstein’s statement recognizes a conceptual ceiling and regards silence as an appropriate expression of intellectual humility and awe. Ramana Maharishi envisions silence as a way through the ineffable.
2 days ago · Plato, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Wittgenstein—for all their many differences—enjoy a special status as “poets’ philosophers” in the annals of literary history. Other lofty thinkers fly under poets’ collective radar; I have yet to come across a volume of verse prefaced by a quotation from David Hume.
14 hours ago · Much better known for his film music, Korngold wrote his concerto for the left hand around 1922-23 for Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the Great War. It was first performed in Vienna, in September 1924, by Wittgenstein who owned the performing rights so that it was not played by any other pianists until after his death in 1961.
1 day ago · Werner Karl Heisenberg (/ ˈhaɪzənbɜːrɡ /; [2] German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ kaʁl ˈhaɪzn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) [3] was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics, and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II.
3 days ago · There’s simply too much cola in our bloodstream. We can all choke on our sugary diet and excuses, but they don’t exonerate anyone from bad behavior. In short, we all make stupid mistakes—teachers, too. Live with it. But, people who are learned, or claim to be learned, are likewise expected to act and think the way learned people do.
