Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine's Hardboiled Hero....Ludwig Wittgenstein@132

#LudwigWittgenstein132   Today April 26 2021 is 132nd birth anniversary of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philip K. Zimmerman, ‘The Philosopher and the Detectives: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Enduring Passion for Hardboiled Fiction’, September 2020 :

“…Wittgenstein’s central question, the conundrum that haunted him throughout his life, was what can and cannot be said. With time his position on this question changed, but even at his most expansive, he remained skeptical about the ability of words to capture, or even explore, universal truths—precisely what most philosophers believe their words to be doing. The young Wittgenstein thought it was impossible to say anything truly meaningful about God, the soul, ethics, the nature of being or virtually any of the other subjects that philosophers go on about. His claim was not that these things don’t exist but merely that words can’t touch them.

…And in fact the hardboiled hero is a model he embodied with admirable consistency, in his own intellectual way. Sangfroid, indifference to popular opinion, contempt for authority, unflinching determination to face our human limits—these were all hallmarks of his personal style. Wittgenstein, we might say, was a hardboiled thinker. Like a hardboiled hero, he was obsessed by right and wrong but only on his own terms, and he refused to preach about it. Like a hardboiled hero, when faced with the choice between misunderstanding and silence, he chose silence. His primary loyalty was to himself and his work—which in the final analysis were the same thing.

In 1951, aware he was dying of cancer, Wittgenstein was still writing intense, original and penetrating philosophy. He was also still reading Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine.”

 

Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein; Logicomix, 2008 

Apostolos Doxiadis, illustrated by Alecos Papadatos

Possible Scietific Questions and the Problems of Life...Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus@100

या पुस्तकातील  माझे अत्यंत आवडणारे quote :  “We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

प्राध्यापक सुधीर बोस (S K Bose) यांनी दिल्लीच्या सेंट स्टीफन कॉलेजमध्ये १९४० साली   द फिलॉसॉफिकल सोसायटीची स्थापना केली. प्रा बोस हे Wittgenstein यांचे विद्यार्थी होते, ज्यांच्या ( Wittgenstein)  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ला २०२१ साली १०० वर्षे पूर्ण होत आहेत.

 रे मॉंक त्यांच्या 'Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius' गाजलेल्या पुस्तकात लिहतात :

“…Many who had heard of Wittgenstein as the author of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus imagined him to be an old and dignified German academic, and were unprepared for the youthfully aggressive and animated figure they encountered at meetings of the Moral Science Club. S. K. Bose, for example, who subsequently became one of the circle of Wittgenstein’s friends and admirers, recalls:

My first encounter with Wittgenstein was at a meeting of the Moral Science Club at which I read a paper on ‘The nature of moral judgement’. It was a rather largely attended meeting and some people were squatting on the carpet. Among them was a stranger to all of us (except, of course, Professor Moore and one other senior member possibly present). After I had read the paper, the stranger raised some questions and objections in that downright fashion (but never unkind way) which one learned later to associate with Wittgenstein. I have never been able to live down the shame I felt when I learnt, some time later, who my interlocutor had been, and realised how supercilious I had been in dealing with the questions and objections he raised."