{"id":12434,"date":"2009-08-31T18:50:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/31\/wittgensteins-level\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T18:50:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T18:50:50","slug":"wittgensteins-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/31\/wittgensteins-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Wittgenstein&#8217;s Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There are philosophers whose ideas are worth&#0160; little, but whose lives were in many ways exceptional and pitched at a level of spiritual intensity that&#0160;the rest&#0160;of us reach only occasionally if at all. &#0160;Simone Weil is one example, Ludwig Wittgenstein another. This Wittgenstein fragment gives me shivers and goose bumps:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A beautiful garment that is transformed (coagulates as it were) into worms and serpents if its wearer looks smugly at himself in the mirror.<br \/><\/font><font face=\"Georgia\"><em><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><em>Ein schoenes Kleid, das sich in Wuermer und Schlangen verwandelt (gleichsam koaguliert), wenn der, welcher er traegt, sich darin selbstgefaellig in den Spiegel schaut.<\/em> (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/cgi-bin\/hfs.cgi\/00\/2594.ctl\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Culture and Value<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, p. 22) <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are philosophers whose ideas are worth&#0160; little, but whose lives were in many ways exceptional and pitched at a level of spiritual intensity that&#0160;the rest&#0160;of us reach only occasionally if at all. &#0160;Simone Weil is one example, Ludwig Wittgenstein another. This Wittgenstein fragment gives me shivers and goose bumps: A beautiful garment that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/31\/wittgensteins-level\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wittgenstein&#8217;s Level&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wittgenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}