Why isn't Wittgenstein this board's hero?

[Anonymous No.12219648]

>Early philosophy dismantled STEM into being cold and pointless, and the truly important things only being expressed through art and not language
>Later philosophy concluded everything was just rule-following language games, even higher level mathematics. Language becomes the base of all life and human achievements, from landing on the moon to praying for a loved one's soul.
Why doesn't /lit/ appreciate this guy more? If he were alive today, this would be his favorite board without a doubt.

[Anonymous No.12219653]

Because no one on here is intelligent enough or has enough patience to learn his philosophy. You losers can't get past Aristotle.

[Anonymous No.12219661]

Because Tractatus was 50 pages of autism to ultimately just say
>dude facts are self-evident lol
Yeah fuck this nigga

[Anonymous No.12219662]

>>12219653
This might be true,
>Start with the Greeks!
This is a stupid meme. They are valuable but they shouldn't be the majority of what you read.

[Anonymous No.12219664]

>>12219653
>You losers can't get past Aristotle.
And that's a good thing

[Anonymous No.12219671]

I like this man; would suck his penis too.

[Anonymous No.12219675]

>>12219648
He was also
>Drowning in Catholic fervor
>Almost took the brownpill and became a monk
>Favored reading great literature like Tolstoy rather than autistic Philosophical Journals bickering whether Set Theory somehow has underpinnings of Idealism
>Despite being out of the philosophical loop, managed to make huge contributions to the field
Yeah, he should be /our/ guy

[Anonymous No.12219676]

Good work to start with?

[Anonymous No.12219687]

>>12219676
He really only published two works.
His first philosophical work was the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, but that's a ridiculously demanding first step into his philosophy. But you can't read his second work Philosophical Investigations without first understanding Tractatus.
So, I'd say start with some intro-level talks/lectures about him on YouTube, then work slowly into the source material of Tractatus itself.

[Anonymous No.12219694]

>>12219661
Read it again, Tractatus is more than that. A lot of it is wrong, but it's more than you think

[Anonymous No.12219697]

>>12219653
To be fair he never got past Aristotle either

[Anonymous No.12219708]

>>12219676
On Certainty or Philosophical Investigations
I haven't read some of the other small volumes like On Color but I would imagine they're okay too. Anything but TLP really.

>>12219687
>He really only published two works.
He published one, the TLP. The rest are unfinished or collected notes, posthumously released.

>you can't read his second work Philosophical Investigations without first understanding Tractatus
You absolutely can. He makes some reference to it, but the book isn't constructed in such a way that every section is crucial. You'll get a lot out of it even without TLP.

[Anonymous No.12219721]

>>12219708
He was going to publish Philosophical Investigations if he hadn't died. "On Color" and "Brown and Blue Books" are just notes of his put together later. The Investigations were meant as an actual book to be published and read. Doubt he would have published anything after Investigations, he seemed pretty content with it.

[Anonymous No.12219783]

>>12219653
I know people here don't, but I do :3
And he's the most enlightened philosopher I know

[Anonymous No.12219791]

>>12219676
Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough

[Anonymous No.12219795]

>>12219783
Sure you do

[Anonymous No.12219800]

/lit/ doesnt care about Philosophy of Language, so they don't care for a major part of Wittgenstein's work that isn't the first 2 sentences of the Tractatus.

[Anonymous No.12219982]

>>12219648
>through art and not language
>this would be his favorite board
He'd browse /mu/

[Anonymous No.12220084]

>>12219982
Well he was very much into poetry too, but probably music more so. I heard somewhere that he was invited to the University of Vienna to give a lecture on Mathematics and Logic, and he instead read German poetry with his back turned. However, his later philosophy is entirely on language, everything becomes language to him.

[Anonymous No.12220111]

How do I into Wittgenstein?

[Anonymous No.12220151]

>>12220111
I'm only replying because of your digits.
>>12219687
>>12219708
>>12219791

[Anonymous No.12220159]

>>12219648
I have extremely deep respect for W., but that doesn't stop me from shitposting about him.

[Anonymous No.12220175]

>>12219648
He wouldn't want to be our hero. Like he wouldn't let us call him Vicky ;_;
>>12219653
My autism says you need a further (You) even though this anon >>12219697 already covered it.

[Anonymous No.12220219]

>>12219800
delete this

[Anonymous No.12220236]

>>12219676
Always start with late Wittgenstein. The only people who say start with TLP are people who study a very peculiar tradition that thinks Frege is still relevant. Someone saying to start with the TLP is like if you asked where to start reading about psychology and philosophy of mind and someone told you to go back and read Freud chronologically. No one is saying you don't want to have an understanding of Freud and how he fits into the study of mind ultimately, but come on.

[Anonymous No.12220320]

>>12219648
This board doesn’t shut the fuck up
About him

[Anonymous No.12220436]

>>12220320
But why, are you guys too lazy, dumb?

[Anonymous No.12221501]

>>12219648
Do you think he'd watch anime if he were alive today?

[Anonymous No.12221518]

>>12219800
>/lit/ doesnt care about Philosophy of Language
Good because its all trash.

[Anonymous No.12221550]

He was the first philosopher I read (PI).

[Anonymous No.12221598]

>>12219653
>>get PAST Aristotle
>>to Witlesstein

[Anonymous No.12221602]

I read some of his shit briefly and I didn't understand anything, so I dismissed his oeuvre as pretentious wankery

[Anonymous No.12221960]

>>12219675
>tolstoy

[Anonymous No.12223170]

>>12219800
he's in for a surprise when he wakes up lol

[Anonymous No.12223196]

>>12219694
Alright smart guy what else is there.
Give me 5 insights to be derived from wading through Tractatus.

[Anonymous No.12223278]

>>12219687
I am reading someone else's book on him and his ideas :D
I feel like a pleb but I am way to green to start with Wittgenstein now.

[Anonymous No.12223285]

Why Wittgenstein society bans people who post this piece of art on their social media pages?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PWqFowq-4

[Anonymous No.12223529]

>>12219676
>>12220111
Read Ray Monk's Biography on him!