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WITTGENSTEIN, LANGUAGE, AND POWER A Conversation With Ruper Read

Political Philosophy Podcast

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Wittgenstein says there is no single thing that's common to them all. He suggests if we actually look at the great diversity of games that we see a complicated network of similarities and crisscrossing details, then he finds ways in which our language works rather than doesn't. Wittgenstein famously famously said overthinking itself could be a disease,. Try to find a way where it's possible for you not to think about your own thoughts but other people's ideas.

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