Though I have found no evidence of its inspiration by Wittgenstein's experience, nonetheless one is reminded of the title character in Herman Hesse's "Magister Ludi", who
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abnegates his position as head of the world's leading (perhaps only) academy to seek a reification of philosophy (to "bring it into contact with the broader world"), in part through the tutoring of a childhood friend's young son.
I must at some point comb through the accounts of both attempts at this goal, to see if the resemblance is more than superficial.
[Spoiler Alert]
abnegates his position as head of the world's leading (perhaps only) academy to seek a reification of philosophy (to "bring it into contact with the broader world"), in part through the tutoring of a childhood friend's young son.
I must at some point comb through the accounts of both attempts at this goal, to see if the resemblance is more than superficial.