Investigating Wittgenstein

De: Giles Fraser

Narrado por: Philip Rose

Curious, confounding and brilliant, Wittgenstein is a philosopher whom people find it easy to get obsessed with. In Investigating Wittgenstein, Giles Fraser explores the secrets of his attraction.

The How to Believe series explores the teachings, philosophies and beliefs of major thinkers and religious texts. In a short, easy-to-access format, leading writers present new understandings of these perennially important ideas.

©2013 Giles Fraser (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Interesting and concise.

I appreciated the good narration and that it goes straight to the point. Short but deep.

Kind of brief

Makes you want to learn something about what he taught. His writing style is sweeten, simple, but he doesn’t tell you much.

What seest thou, else?

Nietzsche stared into the philosophical abyss and saw God did not exist, and everything was permitted, and nothing is true.

Organized in seven roughly five-minute chapters, Giles Fraser uses a few ideas from Wittgenstein to point out instability in the otherwise robust Western ideology running from Medieval Catholicism to Modern Secularism.

Western Culture sees much but also presumes much, ignoring the light of Nature it cannot see. Wittgenstein, inspired by Goethe, seems to rejects philosophy as narrow in its knowledge. Reality goes beyond the limits of language, and language is woefully limited. Our problem is not that of making an argument but that of sense and perception.

It seems that Wittgenstein portends a certain decay and death arising from our pretentious belief in partial and universal values that claim immortality for their finite existence. We must expand our consciousness. If this takes the form of seeing God in the abyss, so be it.

Religious apologetics not philosophy. :/

Basically, its a litte bit of Wittgenstein painfully obviously selected to justify the authors belief in Christianity.

It wasn't all that convincing an argument for theism. It was less informative than my 15 minutes searching Google.

I was far from impressed.

Good

It’s a good audiobook. I think, personally, that it’s bit hard to understand but quite compelling!