Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 23 No. 2, 2008.
Original scientific paper
Wittgenstein the Morphologist I
Kristijan Krkač
orcid.org/0000-0001-6956-8102
; Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Lukin
; Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the 1st part authors investigate Wittgenstein as the morphologist. They explicate his notion of overview and seeing connections (PI: 122, and related texts and commentaries) as his description of the method and they also make a few notes on authors which influenced him on this matter (Goethe and Spengler). Besides that they summarise some places from Wittgenstein and commentaries regarding his morphological method and some of the obvious applications of it. The main goal is to comment on PI: 122 and GB: 133. Perspicuous presentation seems to be a conceptual investigation which consists in finding similarities and analogies between many and at first glance completely different and disconnected cases (of usage of words) which is in fact morphology as a method.
In the 2nd part authors investigate Wittgenstein as the morphologist. They discuss the nature of morphology regarding grammar, customs and institutions and try to make sense of advantages and disadvantages of morphology regarding the method of philosophical inquiry. Acknowledging the role of morphology helps us to better understand the later Wittgenstein. It gives us perspicuous presentation of (at least some parts) of PI. In the paper they also try to come up with an answer to few important objections to the morphological method by quoting Wittgenstein. That which is morphologically important is organisation of phenomena, their pattern which should be seen in order to be understood. There is also the distinction within the notion of morphology, namely morphology as a method, when it is applied and the morphology as a structure or organisation, when it is explicated from the phenomena.
Keywords
analogy; forms; grammar; morphology; overview; patterns; similarity; survey; Ludwig Wittgenstein
Hrčak ID:
37221
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Publication date:
13.2.2009.
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