{"id":2920,"date":"2011-03-22T22:10:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2011-03-21T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:29:25","slug":"portrait-night-322-ludwig-wittgenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2920","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 3\/22 (Ludwig Wittgenstein)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s subject is <a title=\"Ludwig Wittgenstein\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_Wittgenstein\" target=\"_blank\">philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/a>. I was a philosophy major in college and did my thesis on Wittgenstein. I&#8217;d love to tell you that I therefore have a really solid understanding of his two most notable contributions to philosophy&#8211;logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy&#8211;but his ideas are pretty slippery and even after studying him pretty intensely for a year or so in college, I still have trouble wrapping my brain around a lot of his ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say I&#8217;m marginally better at <em>drawing<\/em> than understanding Wittgenstein:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2921\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2921\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,901\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wittgenstein\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein-249x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2921\" title=\"wittgenstein\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein_ph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2922\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2922\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein_ph.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"672,490\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wittgenstein_ph\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein_ph-300x218.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein_ph.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2922\" title=\"wittgenstein_ph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein_ph-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein_ph-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wittgenstein_ph.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019d like to suggest a #portraitnight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my<a title=\"Ben Towle - Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ben_towle\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s subject is philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. I was a philosophy major in college and did my thesis on Wittgenstein. I&#8217;d love to tell you that I therefore have a really solid understanding of his two most notable contributions to philosophy&#8211;logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy&#8211;but his ideas are pretty slippery and even after studying him &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2920\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-L6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}