WITTGENSTEIN: Interview with Prof. Michael Potter

wittgenstein my favourite :)

Ludwig contributed NOTHING of value to the field of philosophy.
Prove me wrong.

wittgenstein seems to me to have laid groundwork for future generations into the inspection of language and its relations. Produced language roads, lit up by his self-conscious tendencies. i am the furthest from an expert on his thought and work, but i also get the impression that his writings seem to constantly orbit the essence of tautology. but i can see this could be a distortion. although i can also see why some might think his work in places lacks the kind of substance and concretness expected in the end. decent video to me so far that im watching it. have you read his stuff on colour?

In a poll carried out in 1999 with professional philosophers working in the USA, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations was voted the most important work of the 20th.c., but you wouldn't know this just by listening to this conversation, which I found grindingly dull. It lacked any reference to Wittgenstein's spirit and deep, ethical commitment.

Excellent video.

great interview on a work of a genius philosopher.

Michael Potter looks so happy talking a out this stuff

Thanks for this interview, really enjoyed it. I'm currently reading Monk's Bio of Wittgenstein, enjoying that too. I'm not an expert on Philosophy by any stretch, so was wondering what impact, if any, Wittgenstein's work on Language may have had on computer languages (Java, Python, C++ eg.)? Also, what editions of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' and his 'Philosophical Investigations' would you (or anyone here) recommend I read? Thanks again for your channel, enjoying it immensely. Thanks again man.

I really enjoyed this interview. The statement I found most interesting was the idea that some of the moves Wittgenstein was making was to close off the way to transcendental idealism. Would be interested in this being elaborated.

"Most of the propositions in the book are nonsense" Yet, he still dedicated a good part of his professional life to studying, interpreting and promoting this book of nonsense, which according to the author himself should be thrown away. This is why people hate and belittle the study of modern philosophy. Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Popper, Becker, all would be a better use of time than this "gibberish."

Incoherent

Very enlightening! Listening to this interview really helped me to better understand the Investigations, which I had supposedly studied!

Thanks for making these videos! This was excellent.

Great philosopher worthy of study. If the child makes you mad, just attack him physically. I tend to favor the philisophy of a certain movie character by the name of Tony Montana, who gave up everything in order to save the lives of 2 kids. In Tony's words, "you are all a bunch of fucking assholes. You know why? Because you dont have the guts to be who you want to be".

Thank you, both. Thank Prof Potter, thank you Judith for pointing me to this. Joy.

Can someone explain why everyone thinks Wittgenstein was so bleedin' clever? 😲 I've always thought he was doing, in his later phase, no more than paraphrasing Protagoras and the other Sophists (or even Berkeley). And in his first phase he was reviving the enterprise of the early Socrates/Plato. 🤔 What do "all" games have in common? Well... what do all rivers have in common? What do all flames have in common? Describe the aroma of coffee? Well... describe the colour yellow. Describe the aroma of a week-worn pair of underpants. 😄 I'm not joking.

Please let the Professor Talk

Goedel interessiert sich in 3 Seiten Brief an Wittgenstein zum Prototractatus

Unwatchable due to constant interruption for ads.

Is Professor Michale on shrooms? Why those weird eyes?

Has anyone written about parallels with Wittgenstein on language and Godel's incompleteness theorem?

Bullish-t thumbnail to make unwary people think it's a lost 'interview' with Wittgenstein, the way it is deliberately written.
No ethics in this video maker. No honor. Crap. Unsub. LW would not approve of that clickbait deceit tactic. Inconsiderate.

The best definition of Philosophy I've ever heard: "A thousand page menu - and no food".

Defining Wittgenstein as an "analytic philosopher"?? Has the interviewer read 'Philosophical Investigations'? He had a road to Damascus and recanted his early work.

" This is for the real adepts in madness, who have gone beyond all psychiatry, psychoanalysis, who are unhelpable. This third book is again the work of a German, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Just listen to its title: TRACTATUS LOGICO PHILOSOPHICUS. We will just call it TRACTATUS. It is one of the most difficult books in existence. Even a man like G.E.Moore, a great English philosopher, and

Bertrand Russell, another great philosopher - not only English but a philosopher of the whole world - both agreed that this man Wittgenstein was far superior to them both.

Ludwig Wittgenstein was really a lovable man. I don't hate him, but I don't dislike him. I like him and I love him, but not his book. His book is only gymnastics. Only once in a while after pages and pages you may come across a sentence which is luminous. For example: That which cannot be spoken should not be spoken; one should be silent about it. Now this is a beautiful statement. Even saints, mystics, poets, can learn much from this sentence. That which cannot be spoken must not be spoken of.

Wittgenstein writes in a mathematical way, small sentences, not even paragraphs - sutras. But for the very advanced insane man this book can be of immense help. It can hit him exactly in his soul, not only in the head. Just like a nail it can penetrate into his very being. That may wake him from his nightmare.

Ludwig Wittgenstein was a lovable man. He was offered one of the most cherished chairs of philosophy at Oxford. He declined. That's what I love in him. He went to become a farmer and fisherman. This is lovable in the man. This is more existential than Jean-Paul Sartre, although Wittgenstein never talked of existentialism. Existentialism, by the way, cannot be talked about; you have to live it, there is no other way.

This book was written when Wittgenstein was studying under G.E.Moore and Bertrand Russell.

Two great philosophers of Britain, and a German... it was enough to create TRACTATUS LOGICO PHILOSOPHICUS. Translated it means Wittgenstein, Moore and Russell. I, on my part, would rather have seen Wittgenstein sitting at the feet of Gurdjieff than studying with Moore and Russell. That was the right place for him, but he missed. Perhaps next time, I mean next life... for him, not for me. For me this is enough, this is the last. But for him, at least once he needs to be in the company of a man like Gurdjieff or Chuang Tzu, Bodhidharma - but not Moore, Russell, not Whitehead. He was associating with these people, the wrong people. A right man in the company of wrong people, that's what destroyed him.

My experience is, in the right company even a wrong person becomes right, and vice-versa: in a wrong company, even a right person becomes wrong. But this only applies to unenlightened men, right or wrong, both. An enlightened person cannot be influenced. He can associate with anyone - Jesus with Magdalena, a prostitute; Buddha with a murderer, a murderer who had killed nine hundred and ninety-nine people. He had taken a vow to kill one thousand people, and he was going to kill Buddha too; that's how he came into contact with Buddha.

The murderer's name is not known. The name people gave to him was Angulimala, which means 'the man who wears a garland of fingers'. That was his way. He would kill a man, cut off his fingers and put them on his garland, just to keep count of the number of people he had killed. Only ten fingers were missing to make up the thousand; in other words only one man more.... Then Buddha appeared. He was just moving on that road from one village to another. Angulimala shouted, "Stop!"

Buddha said, "Great. That's what I have been telling people: Stop! But, my friend, who listens?"

Angulimala looked amazed: Is this man insane? And Buddha continued walking towards Angulimala. Angulimala again shouted, "Stop! It seems you don't know that I am a murderer,

and I have taken a vow to kill one thousand people. Even my own mother has stopped seeing me, because only one person is missing.... I will kill you... but you look so beautiful that if you stop and turn back I may not kill you."

Buddha said, "Forget about it. I have never turned back in my life, and as far as stopping is concerned, I stopped forty years ago; since then there is nobody left to move. And as far as killing me is concerned, you can do it anyway. Everything born is going to die."

Angulimala saw the man, fell at his feet, and was transformed. Angulimala could not change Buddha, Buddha changed Angulimala. Magdalena the prostitute could not change Jesus, but Jesus changed the woman.

So what I said is only applicable to so-called ordinary humanity, it is not applicable to those who are awakened. Wittgenstein can become awakened; he could have become awakened even in this life.

Alas, he associated with wrong company. But his book can be of great help to those who are really third-degree insane. If they can make any sense out of it, they will come back to sanity."

YT keeps shifting me away from this and other videos 😢

Excellent discussion and interview

An amazing amount of energy spent on finding meaning in what is admittedly gibberish, nonsense

What a fascinating and insightful discussion! Thank you both for this.

Any way to cut down, or stop, all the excessive hand waving of the guest in future videos? Unfortunately, this constant gesturing, and rapid motioning of the hands in such a limited visual frame makes for a very distracting and difficult to watch presentation.

If Wittgenstein could not explain his reasoning, then why is he famous?

that private language argument was explained so badly... lots of stuttering circle argumentation, with a pinch of actual explanation.. this interview does not really deserve the praise it gets in the comments.. this is at best a 6 or 7 out of 10.........

thanks for this its hard to get all this historical detail without the help of an expert or huge amount of research

13.42 in and I haven't learned a thing about Wittgenstein's philosophy. I'm outta here

It truly is bewildering i have 10 pages left of the Tractus and i havent understood what he is on about of when the great enlightening ideas are going to be shared ?

The moon landing was definitely fake. Ans NO one has been to the moon.
Nasa currently still admits they do not have the technology and cannot “go back”

Potter said he was going to a seminar and it sounded like he was going to a seven hour. And I thought couldn't he speak concisely.

 Those three hours went by very quickly! That was fantastic, thanks.