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23498 | The modern idea of the subjective soul is composite, and impossible [Wittgenstein] |
Full Idea: Therre is no such thing as the soul - the subject, etc. - as it is conceived in the superficial psychology of the present day. Indeed a composite soul would no longer be a soul. | |
From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 5.5421) | |
A reaction: This seems to endorse Descartes' claim about the essential unity of the mind. I think Hume is in the background of LW's thought. Presumably the psychologist offered a 'composite' view. Prior discussion of belief leads into this remark. |