> On 16 Feb, 06:42, Leon2 wrote:

>> Paul schreef:> On 16 Feb, 00:29, "Paul" yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>>> I understood that LW wanted to "solve" all philosophical questions by
>>>>> showing they are a misunderstanding of the logical structure of
>>>>> language.

>>>> Thus forgetting that philosophy is about more thanlanguage.-check
>>>> out Bryan Magee's "My Philosophical Development" for an elaboration of
>>>> this view.

>>> ... Oops -- work brain, work -- I meant Bryan Magee's "Confessions of
>>> a Philosopher" (though my title's better :-)

>> It could be quite a discussion what philosophy is. Thanks for the tip.

>
> It certainly is -- I've read several introductions to philosophy and
> several biograhies of philosophers, and this intellectual
> autobiography is my favourite on both counts. I wouldn't say it's my
> favourite book ever - the best works of the greatest philosophers
> (Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Schopenhauer, one or two others, not
> Wittgenstein...) would have to top it, but it's certainly the best
> lightweight/overview philosophy book I have ever read. Magee's heavier ...