I am not sure the question of rule-following behavior posed at the level of abstraction that W discusses it really has anything to offer discussiuon of the holocaust or the Russian revolution, etc. I might be wrong of course. jks
--- uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> Wittgenstein
> >did not provide topical commentary on
> > anything. As far as I know he did not discuss in
> > print:
> > World War I (in which he was a soldier)
> > The treaty of Versaille
> > The inflation of the 1920s
> > The revolutionary movements of that era and their
> fate
> > The rise of Nazism
> > The Russian revolution
> etc.
>
> My question was about the Wittgensteinian school and
> its potential, if any,
> for providing topical commentary on the issues you
> have listed by using
> Wittgenstein's methods and assumptions.
>
> > Probably I have left something out, but I tried to
> hit
> > the highlights so you would not have to ask. If
> you
> > are looking for topical commentary, he's not your
> guy.
> > His interest in rule-following behavior addresses
> in
> > part the skeptical challenge, how do we know we
> are
> > following a rule? Like, "add 1" or "use 'red' to
> mean
> > this color here." If that level of abstraction
> does
> > not interest you, don't read him.
>
> That level of abstraction would certainly interest
> me, if it's relationship
> to and its implications for the topics mentioned by
> you can be indicated.
>
> Ulhas
>
>
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