c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…this kind of philosophy don't go from the point of philosophy to experience. You know this whole thing was. In 1921, Ludwig Wittgenstein published his tractatus, which is the sort of Bible of modern philosophy, in which in the course of which, all…
…observes in another part of the paper, a great deal of this new style in philosophy emerges from the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Vienna School. And so often happens, people who are disciples and followers manage to effect the most amazing parodies…
…Vienna School. And so often happens, people who are disciples and followers manage to effect the most amazing parodies of their masters. Ludwig Wittgenstein is a formidable genius and if I may be so bold as to attempt to summarise in a few words what he…
…trying to show that in his view, philosophy is a kind of therapy. There are many, many very close parallels between Wittgenstein and Buddhist Philosophy, since both are concerned with philosophy as a kind of recovery from the mind's bewitchment by false…
…of asking, not questions that are simply unanswerable but that really have no meaning at all. The difficulty is this: that Wittgenstein, who saw this and propounded it with great genius, ended his book his famous book, the tractatus logico philosophicus by…
…book, the tractatus logico philosophicus by saying: of that which one cannot speak, one should remain silent. In other words, Wittgenstein was a mystic and he saw that there are important and valuable realities beyond anything that philosophy can discuss that…
…observes in another part of the paper, a great deal of this new style in philosophy emerges from the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Vienna School. And so often happens, people who are disciples and followers manage to effect the most amazing parodies…
…Vienna School. And so often happens, people who are disciples and followers manage to effect the most amazing parodies of their masters. Ludwig Wittgenstein is a formidable genius and if I may be so bold as to attempt to summarise in a few words what he…
…trying to show that in his view, philosophy is a kind of therapy. There are many, many very close parallels between Wittgenstein and Buddhist Philosophy, since both are concerned with philosophy as a kind of recovery from the mind's bewitchment by false…
…of asking not questions that are simply unanswerable but that really have no meaning at all. The difficulty is this: that Wittgenstein, who saw this and propounded it with great genius, ended his book his famous book, the tractatus logico philosophicus by…
…book, the tractatus logico philosophicus by saying: of that which one cannot speak, one should remain silent. In other words, Wittgenstein was a mystic and he saw that there are important and valuable realities beyond anything that philosophy can discuss,…
…is called scientific empiricism and sometimes logical positivism, especially as this movement is represented in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The work say that he did about 1914 contains some quite in Indian Philosophy and logic between, shall we…
…The suspension of thought is, for modern man in particular, a tremendously important undertaking. When, in about 1921, Ludwig Wittgenstein published a book called the tractatus logico philosophicus, it was the end of western philosophy, because where he…
…called scientific empiricism and sometimes logical positivism, especially as this movement is represented in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The work say that he did about 1914 contains some quite extraordinary parallels to developments that occurred in…
…effect and the idea that there is a kind of necessity in nature. I was talking also last time about the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and there is a passage in which he says: there is no necessity in nature for one thing to happen because another has…
…being pushed around by other events, and that there is therefore this whole picture of what we call causal determinism. Wittgenstein also produces a rather interesting idea to explain why there is not natural necessity and there is logical necessity, which…
…we have the events of life, whatever their form may be, and then by superimposing the grill over them, we may have, as Wittgenstein points out, a mesh grill whose pattern is simply of squares like squared paper in an arithmetic book, or we could have…