[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Thu Jun 16 18:29:03 PDT 2005


On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chris Doss wrote:


> FWIW, I think Wittgenstein's arguments in Uber
> Sicherkeit and elsewhere were intended to protect
> religion from rationalism, not vice versa.
> Wittgenstein was an intensely religious person (OK, I
> don't know how to define "religious" here, but, damn,
> who would ever argue that W was an atheist or
> rationalist?) He believed that "God" was ineffable,
> but supremely important, a la Meister Eckhardt and
> Martin Heidegger.

I concur with this reading of W. We should shut up about this metaphysical stuff because it's too important to blather about, not (as the logical positivists misconstrued) because it's frivolous.

Miles



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list