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22323 | The philosophical I is the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world [Wittgenstein] |
Full Idea: The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body, or the human soul of wh9ch psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world. | |
From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Notebooks 1914-1916 [1915], 1916. 2 Sep), quoted by Michael Potter - The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 58 Intro | |
A reaction: This is to treat the self as a phenomenon of thought, rather than of a human being. So if a machine could think, would it hence necessarily have a metaphysical self? |
2940 | The subject stands outside our understanding of the world [Wittgenstein] |
Full Idea: The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world. | |
From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 5.632) | |
A reaction: Interesting. We must not confuse epistemology with ontology, but the perceived world exists between two limits - the farthest reaches of my perceptions, and the farthest reaches of myself. I wish I could clearly disentangle the nearer border. Dasein? |