[HN Gopher] Child's Play: On Wittgenstein and teaching children
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       Child's Play: On Wittgenstein and teaching children
        
       Author : quickfox
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-09-13 11:39 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | brudgers wrote:
       | _In 1921, Wittgenstein was fresh off the completion of the
       | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_
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       | Wittgenstein was fresh out out of a POW camp. He wrote the
       | Tractatus living within the horrors of war. Working in a rural
       | school was abandoning his training as an aeronautical engineer.
       | It was abandoning his life as scion of a wealthy urban family
       | that commissioned Klimt for family portraits and a Piano Concerto
       | for the Left Hand for his brother.
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       | Silence?
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       | He was an artilleryman.
        
       | oh_sigh wrote:
       | Some of Wittgenstein's behavior towards certain children seemed
       | to be on the spectrum of grooming, at least from a modern
       | perspective.
        
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