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Was Wittgenstein a historian of philosophy? The answer is bluntly NO. He did not care about predecessors, nor whether he was faithful or not to what they wrote. Let’s say he was totally indifferent to the original text as a historical matter to be interpreted. Yet, Wittgenstein did not think that his predecessors deserved less attention or that they were less good than modern thinkers: ‘Philosophy makes no progress’, he wrote in 1931.
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Soulez, A. (2013). How Wittgenstein Refused to Be ‘The Son Of’. In: Perissinotto, L., Cámara, B.R. (eds) Wittgenstein and Plato. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313447_12
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