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• Love of love of wisdom

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 124
  Lady Philosophy, from the Jefferson Building in Washington DC . I have been a philosophy geek for roughly as long as Ive been able to legally buy beer (a not altogether unrelated activity). My tastes are pretty wide ranging, but there is one strand of it that I have always avoided like the plague. That would be the ...
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• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 126
  A Piece of Monologue wins 3:AM Magazine s Blog of the Year 2009. (Image: New Vintage editions of Michel Foucaults work.) Literature: Paul Auster : On Stealing Books J. G. Ballard : Nic Clears design tribute to Ballard Louis-Ferdinand Céline : Uncovering Célines tireless antisemitism Knut ...
  3 days ago

• George Steiner on Thomas Bernhard

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 126
  Ive been spending my spare time poring over a new collection of George Steiners articles from the New Yorker magazine. Its a fascinating selection that includes shrewd reflections on an impressive range of writers and thinkers. Among them are essays on Graham Greene, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel ...
  1 week ago

• Wittgenstein’s Aphorisms

  
  Loretta's Basement — Authority: 92
  I’ve been putting off reading through Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value, a book of his aphoristic statements on culture, religion, and, well, things he considers of value. I was struck by it when a guy brought it in to sell me at the bookstore, and when I finally got an order for it today, I figured [...]
  1 week ago

• To go down into the depths you dont need to travel far; you can do it in your own back garden . . . (or above Tintern Abbey)

  
  CAUTE — Authority: 111
  On Christmas day , with the help of a note made by Wittgenstein in 1947 in which he observed: "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life", we reflected on how the journey of the Magi and that of a modern astronomer seem to share a common shape, figure and form summed up in the German loan word Gestalt. I ...
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• Parallel Thoughts By Wittgenstein And Sraffa

  
  Thoughts On Economics — Authority: 493
  Apparently Wittgenstein wrote the following in 1937: "The origin and the primitive form of the language game is a reaction; only from this can more complicated forms develop. Language - I want to say - is a refinement, in the beginning was the deed." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (Translated by Peter ...
  1 week ago

• How Philosophers Should Greet One Another

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 553
  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 80: Der Gruss der Philosophen unter einander sollte sein: "Lass Dir Zeit!" This is how philosophers should greet each other: "Take your time!" A similar thought is to be found in Franz Brentano, though I have forgotten where he says ...
  1 week ago

• Go For Broke and Die with Your Boots On

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 553
  Norman Malcolm, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir , pp. 56-57: Moores health was quite good in 1946-47, but before that he had suffered a stroke and his doctor had advised that he should not become greatly excited or fatigued. Mrs. Moore enforced that prescription by not allowing Moore to have a philosophical ...
  1 week ago

• How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life! - On Magi and modern astronomers

  
  CAUTE — Authority: 111
  (Note - in my mind as I wrote this address was the new European Space Agencys Herschel Telescope which has been revealing some amazing new things . . .)  The "swirling patterns of gas in the image at the top of this blog came as a complete surprise to astronomers. They are located thousands of light years away from ...
  1 week ago

• Cirkus Miramar – En Liten Sеng lyrics

  
  Music News, Videos and more - Musikizme.com Music News, Videos and more Musikizme.com — Authority: 172
  Här under Chairman Mao Eller så med andra ord På en poster ifrån förr Pendlar tiden på ett lod En gin och tonic till en Vän Flicka le och slå dig ner Och låt bordet bli en scen Där poporkestern ger: En liten sång om Ingenting… Som några blommor I en vas Under en Spitfire modell När ett flygplan går I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Body Language: Will They Last? [Romance]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 841
  Among the celebrity weeklies many scientific contributions, none is more entertaining than the "body language expert" who can divine deep interpersonal details from one single photograph. Lets...
  3 weeks ago

• Listening to the past

  
  ad absurdum — Authority: 92
  I feel duty bound to share the information that some wonderful people have seen fit to record complete readings of two of the most elegantly written books in Western philosophy, namely Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Augustine’s Confessions . These two books are examples of how well ...
  4 weeks ago

• Intuition of the Universe

  
  CAUTE — Authority: 111
  And in that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, "Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which ...
  4 weeks ago

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