I’ve chosen to analyse Ludwig Wittgenstein and his views on the private language after reading Yezhou Yang’s written assignment on the Private Language Argument. The private language argument is a philosophical argument regarding the idea of a language understandable to only a single individual and how it would be incoherent to others. Ludwig Wittgenstein introduced this idea later in his work‚ especially in his highly influential book; Philosophical Investigations. In this book he brings forth his
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Margaretha Geertruida Zelle and Edith Cavell. Both women were on opposite ends of the spectrum‚ Marta Hari who used her charms and beautiful looks to attract men and obtain information for the Germans was an exotic dancer while Edith Cavell a nurse who was very motherly like‚ helped wounded Allied soldiers and gathered information from them. Sadly Marta Hari and Edith Cavell were both executed from opposing enemies‚ the French for Hari and the Germans for Cavell. Of course they were important espionages
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close to the things he loved so much‚ the jewels. “In Gaslight we are given the perfect contradiction of the education and creation sought in remarriage comedy: in this melodrama the woman is meant to be decreated‚ tortured out of a mind altogether” (Cavell‚ 49). Gregory uses every means possible to convince his wife she is going crazy. We watch a progression of oppression and isolation happen between a man and a woman that is devastating to both Paula and the viewer. “In the claim of reason I call something
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If we couple that statement with “Only the supernatural can express the Supernatural” (Wittgenstein 1998‚ 3e). How then are we to speak of Wittgenstein’s ethics? Wittgenstein believes that the nonsensicality of all ethical expression is not because he has not yet found the correct expressions‚ but because “that nonsensicality was their very essence” (A Lecture on Ethics 1965). Two Perspectives: Wittgenstein provides an answer by describing alternate perspectives; the perspective we inhabit when
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together. As Cavell says " Her solution is to create her identity so that the very thing that repels the proper Vances is what attracts Jerry..." (Cavell‚ PH‚ 251) In other words by performing a dance and song that had that sensually and sexually tone has negative connotation to the Vances who know Lucy has Jerry sister it may even take on incestuous tone. Where as to Jerry who view Lucy as a partner it seen in positive light as she giving herself solely to Jerry or as said by Cavell “...Lucy is declaring
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born into one of the wealthiest families of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. His father‚ owner of much of Austria’s iron and steel industry‚ encouraged him to study engineering in Berlin and Manchester but‚ during his studies‚ Wittgenstein wrestled with Philosophical questions and soon sought out Bertrand Russell‚ who was lecturing in Philosophy at Cambridge University. Wittgenstein quickly became Russell’s favourite pupil; in fact he was considered by Russell to
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authoritative parenting and depression symptoms in adolescence: 1. The influence of authoritative parenting during adolescence on depressive symptoms in young adulthood: Examining the mediating roles of self-development and peer support‚ by Liem‚ Cavell‚ and Lustig at University of Massachusetts Boston (2010). 2. Control or involvement? Relationship between authoritative parenting style and adolescent depressive symptomatology‚ by Piko‚ and Balazs at University of Szeged (2012). Based on previous
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rarely the same music‚ however‚ that all peoples respond to. What is it that we are responding to when we listen to music? Strictly speaking‚ music is not a language‚ (1) because it has neither outside referents nor easily detectable meaning. Ludwig Wittgenstein explains that although we understand music in a similar way as we understand language‚ music is not a language because we still cannot communicate through music as we can through language. (2) More recently‚ Susanne Langer argues that although
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Suffering‚ in Greek‚ also means passivity (Staehler 63). The suffering is not merely pain‚ but the fact that we cannot escape from our body. Passivity as suffering means in this sense: human is vulnerable‚ and the vulnerability directly shows itself though the body. The inescapability of our body is our suffering. When Gloucester’s eyes
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should not be treated as dogma. So philosophy offers no truths‚ no theories‚ nothing exciting‚ but mainly reminders of what we all know. This is not a glamorous role‚ but it is difficult and important. It requires an almost infinite capacity for taking pains (which is one definition of genius) and could have enormous implications for anyone who is drawn to philosophical contemplation or who is misled by bad philosophical theories. This applies not only to professional philosophers but to any people who
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