Wittgenstein on Religion

#Philosophy #Wittgenstein

[kagame]

What an entertaining, educative documentary!

I like how Wittgenstein changed his earlier theories based on his study/research, a very commendable academic integrity

[WHOAM]

Imagine Bertrand Russel telling you that you're a talented philosopher and should become one. What a confidence boost that would be.

[jonathangilmore]

Surprising to me how similar Wittgenstein’s philosophy of god (soul) was to Rainer Maria Rilke’s and Lou Andreas-Salome’s! In fact, the line from Nietsche to Jung to Rilke and James Hillman (psychotherapist) is very salient. It is the English Romantics: “all gods reside in the human breast” (William Blake)!

[cesarfranciscoriverasoto]

I have read some things of Wittgenstein before, but never have I searched for the subject of his beliefs. It's very summarized, but it's also very well compacted. Truly, it was an excellent presentation.

[adamchurvis]

INTERESTING that Wittgenstein delved into what is formally known as "Cold Propulsion" with those helicopter blades, because another philosopher -- Arthur M. Young -- was the engineer who designed the most popular helicopter rotor blade control mechanism in history. When you look at a modern Bell Jet Ranger or a Vietnam-era UH-1 "Huey" helicopter and see an "Inertial Flybar" with weights between the rotor blades, that is the control system which Young designed. He was a Philosopher but needed to make some money, so he chose the very early science of helicopter design. He made his money and then went back to philosophy. Incidentally, both Wittgenstein's cold propulsion and Young's inertial flybar can be used on the same helicopter.

And if you want to stretch the term "Philosophy" just a tiny bit, Stanley Hiller, the boyhood genius, invented and flew a co-axial helicopter at the age of 19 and then went on to develop a competitor to Young's inertial flybar that used large paddles at the ends of the flybar. The pilot "flew the flybar" and the flybar flew the helicopter, resulting in a more balanced, fluid flight. If you watched the 1963 James Bond film "From Russia With Love, " the yellow helicopter was a Hiller and you can see the paddle-style flybar.

Stanley Hiller, who became a millionaire at the age of sixteen during the Great Depression by designing, building, and selling affordable model race cars and then went on to design and build helicopters, finally retired but could not sit still. So he started a second career as one of the very first "Business Consultants" to perform corporate turnarounds. He had a strict philosophy about how businesses should be monitored and managed for profitability, and he always succeeded. Baker Hughes, Key Tronic, and BorgWarner are all Stanley Hiller turnarounds.

And as a final coincidence, all three of these philosopher-invented technologies can be combined in a single helicopter; the Radio Controlled Model industry has been making sophisticated combination Young-Hiller mixing systems for years, and one of these could accommodate a cold-propulsion rotor blade system.

[clive]

Such a great content. Thanks for uploading this for free.

[mitchellglaser]

The house Wittgenstein designed is an early example of brutalism, the spareness and austerity of his living conditions reflect this as well. And his philosophy is the same.

[joemahony]

Religion is lived just as any activity . You learn to drive a car or ride a Horse by doing it not by reading a book or thinking about it.

[Deliquescentinsight]

This was a terrific series, the sea of faith, the presenter has a gift for clear explanation

[islaymmm]

It's refreshing to hear from a priest the sincere and honest admission that religion is one of the ways we can freely choose to organise our lives. Indeed a religious person doesn't have to be dogmatic at the same time.

[martinkennedy]

...breathtakingly impressive video:
concrete, concise, revealing
Wittgenstein himself
would approve
first class
thanks

[dosanbey]

Quite interesting. I just wish they had eliminated the clarinet or what ever it was, or at least turned the volume on it down so that it didn't break your eardrums and you could hear the man speak without having to adjust the volume all the time.

[bunsenn]

The creation of gods and deities truly was the greatest, most effective coping mechanism humans ever manifested to combat the vast emptiness of existence. It does not explain that vastness, but it does give us a sense of warmth that simply is not there without an inner faith in something above us. Humans cannot comprehend that the universe as we see it could come by chance, because of how vast it is. But that is the greatest obstacle of human thought, that anything that goes beyond our comprehension must be deliberate.

[ravivaradhan]

Powerful and practical wisdom 5:29 - 6:00

[firstal]

Like this documentary. This is the best presentation of Withenestein views

[anothermike]

Like Dostoyevsky wrote about, the basic man needs eternity as a deterrent against sinning. Seems Wittgenstein is admitting that also. Emphasizing behavior over belief because morality is based on your behavior towards others and not what say you believe.

[DexterHaven]

16:58 Wow, that's where his book "On Certainty" was written!
it's on YouTube as an audio book now, I see, as of this year. 
A book of numbered remarks on in response to G.E. Moore's essay "In Defense of Common Sense."

[anothermike]

Silence is often misconstrued as an affirmation. That confronts the idea of silence being truthful.

[markantrobus]

Wittgenstein is a mystic pure and simple. You cannot understand Wittgenstein unless you have a grasp of the meaning of what he calls das Mystische. (Tractatus)

[groovy]

This was so interesting!
I find that many of his ideas are the same ones that I have been contemplating recently, and always searching and researching.