Anton Bruckner Seen Through Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics Jason Kiss Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics and How it Fits into His Philosophy Arthur Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, as expounded in his work “The World as Will and Representation,” draws from the Platonic tradition where the material world is viewed with contempt and a “greater” reality lies beneath the surface.[1] Schopenhauer is…
Wittgenstein, Language, and Thought
An Extract From On the Philosophy of Education by Daniele-Hadi Irandoost Although the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations are both about language, one is more likely to find the latter intriguing upon learning that Wittgenstein had radically revised his ideas in that work, after realising, as he plainly admitted there, he had made ‘grave mistakes’ in…