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Wittgenstein: Whose Philosopher?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

G. E. M. Anscombe
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One of the ways of dividing all philosophers into two kinds is by saying of each whether he is an ordinary man's philosopher or a philosophers' philosopher. Thus Plato is a philosophers' philosopher and Aristotle an ordinary man's philosopher. This does not depend on being easy to understand: a lot of Aristotle's Metaphysics is immensely difficult. Nor does being a philosophers' philosopher imply that an ordinary man cannot enjoy the writings, or many of them. Plato invented and exhausted a form: no one else has written such dialogues. So someone with no philosophical bent, or who has left his philosophical curiosity far behind may still enjoy reading some of them.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 28 , March 1990 , pp. 1 - 10
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1990

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