Knowing Where to Turn: Analogy, Method and Literary Form in Plato and Wittgenstein

Mark Rowe

doi:10.1057/9781137313447_5

Knowing Where to Turn: Analogy, Method and Literary Form in Plato and Wittgenstein

Mark Rowe

Philosophy

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Abstract

Notoriously, Wittgenstein read very little philosophy.1 ‘He could only read what he could wholeheartedly assimilate,’ recalled von Wright, ‘[…] as a young man he read Schopenhauer. From Spinoza, Hume and Kant he said he could get only occasional glimpses of understanding. I do not think he could have enjoyed Aristotle or Leibniz, two great logicians before him. But it is significant that he did read and enjoy Plato. He must have recognized congenial features, both in Plato’s literary and philosophical method and the temperament behind the thoughts’ [MM:19].

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Wittgenstein and Plato: Connections, Comparisons and Contrasts
Editors	L. Perissinotto , B. R. Camara
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	5
Pages	100-125
ISBN (Print)	978-1-349-34819-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313447_5
Publication status	Published - 2013

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