[Bups-dis] Re: Crowe's bit

[djf500 at york.ac.uk]

"Wittgenstein was a Catholic" - really? Please read Monk's 'Ludwig
Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius'; p.580 - if not the whole thing (there
are other sections that might put you in doubt as to what you say; see the
bit where Wittgenstein deals with exactly how he is to be buried, that he
wants his religious friends to pray for him). I don't say that you couldn't
argue that Wittgenstein was a Catholic, but that it is true is *not* as
breezy as you seem to take it to be. It seems difficult to say that
Wittgenstein was anything but a Wittgensteinian (would you characterise
Jesus as a Jew? [please note I'm not a Christian by most stretches of the
imagination]).

NB. There's no point in a reply to this post (i.e. mine) arguing that
Wittgenstein was a Catholic - I just say that it is not clear. And forgive
me for being a bit tangental - unless anyone wants to deny the importance
of the history of philosophy, we should get it all right.

Daniel