[lbo-talk] Wittgenstein

[Miles Jackson]

On 04/24/2011 07:37 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> What was Wittgenstein's political inclination...? I mean, he did give all his money away....but to his sisters, for fear it would corrupt the poor?
>
> J.

I suppose we could speculate about his motives for giving all his family 
money away, but I'd rather be reading Philosophical Investigations.  
--One of the things I like about Wittgenstein is that you can't easily 
discern his politics from his philosophical work: unlike many 
contemporary philosopher-celebrities (cough*Zizek*cough), he saw no need 
to fit his philosophical arguments to the Procrustean bed of his own 
preexisting political ideology.

Miles