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| Character | PROFESSOR SELDOM | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 2008 | |
| Period | Contemporary | |
| Genre | Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Drama, Crime | |
| Props | A book | |
| Description | Professor Seldom's opening speech on Wittgenstein | |
| Details | Beginning of the Film | |
Summary
The opening sequence of the film is a scene from WWI. A group of soldies are running and shooting. In the chaos, a young man is scribbling in a note book....
This monologue explains the opening image. This is a speech by an Oxford professor on the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein, who wrote the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", an influential book about philosophy about the search for the truth. His conclusion: there is no truth outside of mathematics....
This monologue explains the opening image. This is a speech by an Oxford professor on the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein, who wrote the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", an influential book about philosophy about the search for the truth. His conclusion: there is no truth outside of mathematics....
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| SELDOM: "That man was not mad. He was working with shrapnel whistling around him because he couldn't wait. The contents of that notebook were too important were too important to write it down later. He had to do it when his mind dictated. He couldn't put it off a single second. What was so important that he would risk his life for it? What was he writing that stopped him from standing up and running like any other man would have done? The "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". The most influential philosophical work of the 20th century. That soldier was called Ludwig Wittgenstein. The man who set the limits to our thoughts. The enigma that he tried to decipher was the following: Can we know the truth? All the great thinkers throughout history have sought a single centainty, something that no one can refute, like two and two make four. In order to find that truth Wittgenstein used, in fact, mathematical logic. What better means of obtaining a certainty than an immutable language free from the passions of men? He advanced slowly using equation after equation with impeccable method until he reached a terrifying conclusion. There is no such truth outside of mathematics. There is no way of finding a single absolute truth, an irrefutable argument that might help answer the questions of mankind. Philosophy, therefore is dead. Because "whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent". (End Excerpt) |
