Placing Life under a picture

... what does it mean to place one´s live under a picture? Try to illustrate this close to Wittgenstein 1938 and Hampe 2024-p.210f, quote in translation – For in his lectures on religious faith, Wittgenstein interprets belief in God ... as a specific activity that has to do with images in a ... not at all misleading way. Whoever adheres to a religious belief tries ... to place (life) under an image. Wittgenstein 1938 in Cambridge (according to student transcript), ed. Cyril Barett 1966, German by Ralf Funke 1996-p.77: I think differently, in a different way. I say other things to myself, I have other images. And p.79: Suppose we say that a certain image always plays the role of guiding me ... Here would be a very big difference between the people for whom the image is always in the foreground and those who don't use it at all. Then p.87: Take „God created man“ (The Creation of Adam -mr) ... by Michelangelo ... In general, there is nothing that explains the meaning of words as well as a picture, and I suspect that Michelangelo was as good as anyone can be. ... and here is the image of the beardy deity that creates Adam (and in my view -mr- a pre-existent EVA in the crook of his left arm. Adam and Eve look at each other- Lydia Ginsburg remarked: this is a traditional interpretation) (Short texts written by „L.W.“ in the last years of his life have been gathered & edited (numbers added for the sake of reference) by Anscombe / von Wright 1969 and -as far as I can see- they gave their publication the title ÜBER GEWISSHEIT / ON CERTAINTY. Here you find: „Weltbild“/world-picture in sections 93-95. I quote 95, „The propositions describing this world-picture might be part of a kind of mythology. And their role is like that of rules of a game; and the game can be learned purely practically, without any explicit rules.“ And in addition 97, „The mythology may change back into a state of flux. The river-bed of thoughts may shift. But I distinguish between the movement of oft he waters on the river-bed and the shift oft he bed itself; though there is not a sharp devision oft he one from the other.“ See also 146-147, „We form the picture of the earth as a ball floating free in space … this picture … helps us in the judgement of v.arious situations … The picture oft he earth as a ball is a good picture, it proves itself everywhere … we work with it without doubting it.“ - a secular version of the late Wittgenstein´s picture-philo)

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In the Beginning - European Modernity „Birth“ of Adam - a fresco of Michelangelo What do we see?

On the left is the naked body of a grown up „Adam“ with open eyes. Adam´s left arm points to the >CREATOR<, but the pointing finger seems passiv as if waiting for GOD to take the initiative for the contact. Will Adam become fully alive by the heavenly touch? (Imagine!) What will God say to Adam? Why does Wittgenstein choose this picture to illustrate >belief