Mai 2011
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"Wit"-genstein?
In the midst of critiquing Freud’s essentialist reduction of dreams as wish-fulfillment, Wittgenstein used an illustrative and humorous example, regarding the possibility of multiple different and valid interpretations of a behavior/story/dream-event usw…
“There is no one reason why people talk. A small child babbles often just for the pleasure of making noises. This is also...
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“What afflicts the adult is not so much the illusion of hope as, no doubt among...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via thephilosophizer)
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Kierkegaard: A Socrates in Christendom
Socrates could not prove the immortality of the soul; he simply said: This matter occupies me so much that I will order my life as though immortality were a fact - should there be none, eh bien I still do not regret my choice; for this is the only thing that concerns me.
What a great help it would be in Christendom if someone spoke and acted like that: I don’t know whether Christianity is...
