LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN or THE PHILOSOPHER THAT BET AGAINST PHILOSOPHY... AND LOST

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We will learn, debate, enjoy and investigate philosophers and diverse themes from the philosophical perspective. Each reunion is structured as a conversation among all attendees about that day s philosopher softly moderated by the organizer. The conversation will kick-off from the very brief suggested reading providing easy access to all attendees both to the philosopher and the conversation.

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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN (1889 - 1951), one of the most polemic figures in the history of philosophy, among other reasons for stating (and meaning it ) that all philosophical problems were solved... after he wrote his 1st book. Only his honesty matched his arrogance: his 2nd book rejected most of what he had stated in the first. That only starts to paint the picture of a Austrian born blonde blue eyed gay of jewish origines that shared school with Hitler. So, if conflict has a name... must be Wittgenstein. This radical man wrote his 2 books during the 2 world wars. Both equally ambitious, both deeply risky, excessive, revolutionary, overwhelming, innovative, deeply logical and imaginative at the same time... And both radically opposed.

And this, his essential philosophical conflict, represents, in a certain way, the fundamental conflict in the history of philosophy.

The transition from the so-called 1st Wittgenstein (1921, Tractatus Logicus-Philosophicus) to the 2nd (1953, Philosophical Investigations) embodies much of the conflict of the adventure of philosophy: from the need to ground all knowledge in solid fact-based empirical (quase "scientific") reasonings abandoning for un-existant and/or un-knowable all those other non "empirical" truths... to his later acceptance of the need to account for, to explain, to respond, to explore, to make sense of all those other un-provable, un-measurable, un-predictable realities so fundamental to our daily experience.

That´s the trip Ludwig makes from one book to the other.

His unforgivable defeat as philosopher as the hero of Neo Positivism, is his shining victory as human being, the defeat of philosophy as science is the victory of philosophy as intuition, as art, as attempt to whisper at all the diversity of our experience, whether it can be measured, parametrized, mathematized... or not.

The knowledge of the the unprovable is nevertheless knowledge, and therefore, the territory of philosophy.
There is where he ended. Not a small trip.

Let´s think with Ludwig....