Knowing Where to Turn: Analogy, Method and Literary Form in Plato and Wittgenstein

Rowe, Mark (2013) Knowing Where to Turn: Analogy, Method and Literary Form in Plato and Wittgenstein. In: Wittgenstein and Plato: Connections, Comparisons and Contrasts. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 100-125. ISBN 978-1-349-34819-0

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Abstract

Notoriously, Wittgenstein read very little philosophy.1 ‘He could only read what he could wholeheartedly assimilate,’ recalled von Wright, ‘[…] as a young man he read Schopenhauer. From Spinoza, Hume and Kant he said he could get only occasional glimpses of understanding. I do not think he could have enjoyed Aristotle or Leibniz, two great logicians before him. But it is significant that he did read and enjoy Plato. He must have recognized congenial features, both in Plato’s literary and philosophical method and the temperament behind the thoughts’ [MM:19].

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 May 2019 09:30
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2024 00:35
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70837
DOI:	10.1057/9781137313447_5

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