The Thinker and The Draughtsman: Wittgenstein, Perspicuous Relations, and ‘Working on Oneself’: Garry L. Hagberg

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 66:67-81 (2010)
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In 1931, in the remarks collected as Culture and Value, Wittgenstein writes: ‘A thinker is very much like a draughtsman whose aim it is to represent all the interrelations between things.’ At a glance it is clear that this analogy might contribute significantly to a full description of the autobiographical thinker as well. And this conjunction of relations between things and the work of the draughtsman immediately and strongly suggests that the grasping of relations is in a sense visual, or that networks or constellations of relations are the kinds of things brought into focus by seeing in the right way.

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