WITTGENSTEIN IN BETWEEN – A FRAGMENT
Abstract
WITTGENSTEIN IN BETWEEN - A FRAGMENT Rudolf HALLER Universitat Graz During the first decades of this century we frequently see new movements in the sciences, in the arts as well as in philosophy, which enter the scene under a new name, a pamphlet declaring all norms and methods of the classics in a special field as outdated and even wrong in principle and propounding new theories or methods or arts which should replace the rotten ones. Thus the normal course of the origin and development of scientific theories, artistic creation and philosophical ideas was seen as something in need of a sudden change which could be brought about only by the decision to start anew. These new beginnings should free from the fetters of the past and open up a completely new way of action and reflection, or more rarely - re-open an almost forgotten one which seems full of promise. In philosophy the strongest exemplification of this attitude during the period in question were the logical empiricists who shared the conviction that a completely new way of doing philosophy has been opened. Contrary to the eternal anarchy of philosophical systems and opinions their new philosophical methods should