wittgenstein – The Mapping Motivation Series

Touched by death on a Monday morning

Sometimes highly inconsequential things affect one deeply. Death, of course, is not inconsequential or even consequential to the one to whom it happens, for as Wittgenstein famously said, “Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death”; but for those of us who remain it is another 'object' that weContinue reading “Touched by death on a Monday morning”

Visiting the Afterlife

I think everyone is curious about the after life – life after death – what happens at death. When we stop being curious, we have lost something profound and in our nature. Wittgenstein famously said: “Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.” That is a philosophical position. OnContinue reading “Visiting the Afterlife”