Dienstag, Mai 27, 2025

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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