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David LaRocca on Autobiographical Remarks

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David LaRocca on Autobiographical Remarks The greatest obstacle to truth in conventional autobiography is not insufficient insight (about facts, memories, desires, or ideas elucidated by the intellect) but vanity — a resistance by one’s will to that very difficult type of understanding we may call self-understanding. […] In the present essay, in light of Wittgenstein’s […]

Ludwig Wittgenstein on autobiography

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Ludwig Wittgenstein on autobiography “You cannot write anything about yourself that is more truthful than you yourself are. That is the difference between writing about yourself and writing about external objects. You write about yourself from your own height. You don’t stand on stilts or on a ladder but on your bare feet.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, […]

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