[Bups-dis] Re: Crowe's bit

[Andrew Bacon]

I'd have no qualms about saying Frege was the founder of analytic philosophy
even though I know it is a highly contention claim in the history of philosophy.
Does this mean I shouldn't have said it?

There's a meta-philosophical question for you. My problem with the
'meta-philosophy' is that you have to have done and read a whole lot of
philosophy before you are even qualified to comment on the general methodology.
Either way, I suspect the actual question was sufficiently on the
'object-philosophy' side that I can suggest an answer. I'm inclined to think, if
her parents knew well enough that she was racist, then there is pretty much
little else you could say about her views other than it was inappropriate for
her to express them (you can't stop her thinking them.) To say that racism is
*wrong* is acutely obvious and its unlikely that many readers needed that
spelling out. Also, I'm not sure the word 'inappropriate' really has the
connotations you claim it has any more - especially as used in the media. When
reading the article without first reading your commentary I had difficulty
guessing what it was going to be you were objecting to. 



> "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
> 
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