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.
…just in the same way for example as we put lines of latitude and longitude on both the earth and the heavens. Wittgenstein explained this very beautifully in his tractatus. So the question is: how do we get rid of the grid? Simply by understanding…
…western philosophy has undergone a great revolution since about 1914. In that year there was published Wittgenstein's Tractatus, and Wittgenstein came from the so called Vienna School, or was influenced by the Vienna School of people who call themselves…
…deed? Does one process do another process does one process cause another process? Well no that's simply a matter of description. As Wittgenstein pointed out, there is no necessity in nature. Necessity is only logical. That is to say, if you see, say a…
…example, are units of measurement and through the confusion of the as Korzybski would have said the map with the territory or as Wittgenstein would have said, the network with the world which we try to catch with the network. You see in a certain sense…
…there's a subject called divinity which is to do with the scriptures. So to divine is to study the Oracle. Just as Wittgenstein wanted to make a verb out of philosophy philosophy he always thought to do philosophy. Philosophy isn't just a subject it's an…
…The doctrine is sometimes likened to giving a child a yellow leaf to stop it crying for gold. And so in the same way, Wittgenstein suggests that the whole task of philosophy is really to get rid of itself. I mean in rather the same way the task of…
…no longer waters. But when I had thoroughly and waters, once again waters. Something rather similar happens here, because you see, what Wittgenstein is really saying is that there is no problem of life in the sense in which we ordinarily use that phrase,…
…has none, and therefore there is a quality of meaninglessness, of having no meaning and yet of being meaning to all nature. Wittgenstein makes the remark that it is curious that when after long questing, there are people who feel that they understand the…
…from the east by practices of jnana yoga and zazen, and then from the west through the intellectual perspectives of lydvig Wittgenstein and Spencer brown. East and west all arrive at the same mysterious that which is unspeakable, recorded in 1972 at the…