Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Poker I believe a book has emerged based on that 10 minute episode: http://www.amazon.com/Wittgensteins-Poker-Ten-Minute-Argument-Philosophers/dp/0066212448 I plan to read that book sometime, but this blog post is not about that book.
My question is: Who is weilding a poker at today's philosophers?
There is such an acute poverty of modern philosophies that I sometimes hurriedly (hopefully unfairly) think we are becoming shallower by the day. In many dialectics that I perchance get involved on the net, I am finally accused: "Oh, you are just being philosophical; you are not being constructive" Hmmm....finally, philosophy has become a bad-word. Not many seem to want to agree that philosophy is the bedrock on which intellectuals can build foundations on; for structures that come into our societies via the various sciences and arts.
Take my own field; architecture, for example. Much of the so-called philosophies (e.g. Deconstruction) in architecture are just parts of Buddhism rehashed and re-packaged into Walmart products that students seem to happily pick off the shelves. Even though I am from the East, and possibly take some pride in being part of the Eastern culture and even though I do agree that there is still much to be discovered and used from old philosophies of the East; I am still waiting for some philosophies that is truly becoming of the Internet age.
Where is that philosopher? What philosophy will that be? My poker is ready. But I don't have much to wave it against!
I will explore some options in some future blogs. Generally the sequence of events that generates new philosophies is: Anger and anguish comes first. Then comes thought. Then comes a new philosophy. We are probably still in the first phase. In the meantime, you could read something on Ludwig hurriedly leaving the building
